Thomas, Elizabeth. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects. Thomas Combes.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | This collection contains the harvest of Thomas's poetic career. Her Muse, she says, is unfashionably incapable of dealing with love or obscenity: this shows clearly that her original poetic context was a Restoration one. Thomas, Elizabeth. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects. Thomas Combes. 50-1 |
Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Her introduction demonstrates a good knowledge of ancient Greek poetry and its publication history. In addition to selections by Plato
and Theocritus
, the book includes single poems by Sappho
and Erinna
. Watson, Rosamund Marriott, editor. Selections from the Greek Anthology. W. Scott. xi-xii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | The stories begin with Jack and the Beanstalk and include Bluebeard and Cinderella. EPW
is not over-respectful of her sources. In her Jack and the Beanstalk Mrs Jones (the giant's wife) donates her late... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia read Aeschylus
, Homer
, Sophocles
, and Plato
, among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case
, who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over... |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | Elizabeth Isabella Spence
, reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY
as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 71 |
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