Again CR
mixes poems on distant places which those whose subjects are closer to home. The title sequence involves not just Germany but a kaleidoscopic sequence of different countries and different subjectivities. Jarrow encompasses a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Pym
BP
began this novel as a story about Hilary
and me as spinsters of fiftyish—that is, about a then unimaginable future. Its dry humour and irony, its concentration on middle-aged spinsters, clergy, and the...
Textual Features
Anne Stevenson
In her Winter Time, published with Mid Northumberland Arts Group
(MidNag or MidNAG), in 1986, another of her place poems, Jarrow, links today's loitering youths back to the days of Bede
and the...
Textual Features
Clara Reeve
Edwin or Eadwine, the Christian claimant to a contested kingdom, spent his youth in wandering, took his throne after fierce military struggle, ruled many years in peace, and died fighting against heavy odds in 633...
Timeline
731: A monk at Jarrow named Bede (often called...
Writing climate item
731
A monk at Jarrow named Bede
(often called the Venerable Bede) finished his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
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Shippey, Tom. “The Most Learned Man in Europe”. London Review of Books, 8 June 2006, pp. 34-5.
