Her basic poetry text was John Hayward
's Faber Book of English Verse. She didn't notice at the time that it gave only eleven pages out of 462 to women.
Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
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Friends, Associates
T. S. Eliot
Mirrlees
was a Roman Catholic
convert of some years' standing at the time of her closest contact with Eliot. John Hayward
was a talented, acerbic, clubbable scholar crippled by muscular dystrophy.
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
VW
waited more than a week for comment of any kind on this publication, and was driven to dismiss her own disappointment as something she had now put behind her, writing the book off as...
Literary responses
Stevie Smith
Novel on Yellow Paper was an immediate critical success. Appreciation expressed in reviews by Naomi Mitchison
and Rosamond Lehmann
laid the foundations for SS
's friendships with these and other writers.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Back in London in 1933 TSE
lived in several places before moving into rooms in the presbytery attached to St Stephen's Church in Gloucester Road. He was still there in the first year of...
Textual Features
Nancy Cunard
Making their first appearance in print are poems written for Valentine Ackland
and for Nina Hamnett
, and NC
's elegy for Eliot
, written a few weeks after his death and only two months...
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Texts
Donne, John. “Chronological Table”. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Davy Hayward, Nonesuch Library, 1955, p. xi - xii.
Eliot, T. S. Selected Prose. Editor Hayward, John Davy, Penguin, 1963.