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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | One factor in dividing CB
from Freud may have been her involvement with Cyril Connolly
, who pursued her although or because he had been a friend of her father's at Eton. In the last... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Blackwood | By now she had been several years with Robert Lowell
, who was the single most important influence on her writing, though his own literary fame was also a cause for anxiety to her. A... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Caroline Blackwood | At the end of her marriage to Lowell
, when her life was already seriously disordered, CB
worked prodigiously at her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and became highly productive. |
Textual Production | Caroline Blackwood | According to CB
's biographer this book sprang from Haycraft's determination to distract Blackwood from her despair after the death of Robert Lowell
. Schoenberger, Nancy. Dangerous Muse, A Life of Caroline Blackwood. Phoenix. 253 |
Literary responses | Caroline Blackwood | After her extremist women review, Robert Lowell
observed that her house would be picketed by menacing and armed bull-dykes. Schoenberger, Nancy. Dangerous Muse, A Life of Caroline Blackwood. Phoenix. 177 |
Textual Features | Caroline Blackwood | Critic Val Warner
called CB
a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 65: 38 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Bishop | Between 1941 and 1944 EB
lived with in Key West with Marjorie Stevens
, who was there for her health and was married, but in an open marriage. The two women fell in love when... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bishop | Important among EB
's friendships were those with Marianne Moore
(whom she met in March 1934 while she was still at college and learned a lot from in her early years in New York, but... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bishop | Early reviews of North & South were not enthusiastic, until the tide was turned following warm praise by Marianne Moore
, Randall Jarrell
, and then Robert Lowell
, Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 175-00. 195-6 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bishop | At the Fishhouses brought a letter from Robert Lowell
(Cal) saying he was very envious of what might be her best poem yet. He became from now on her strong supporter. Marshall, Megan. Elizabeth Bishop. A Miracle for Breakfast. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 83 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bishop | She is said to have taken unusual trouble over her letters to Robert Lowell
, which he found odd and observant, poetic but domestic, personal without intrusion. Kermode, Frank. “A Hammer in His Hands”. London Review of Books, pp. 10-11. 10 |
Literary responses | Patricia Beer | Though Robert Lowell
praised the poems in this volume, its reception marked a downturn in PB
's reception. Some established male poets—Alan Brownjohn
, Al Alvarez
—blamed her for being too crafted, too careful... |
Literary responses | Hannah Arendt | Michael A. Musmanno
, a judge at some of the Nuremberg trials, attacked this book in a lead review in the New York Times: he read it as a defence of Eichmann, a whitewash... |
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