Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby, 1980.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | |
Education | Mary Linskill | ML
was taught to read by her aunt Hannah Tireman
, a professional upholsterer. Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby, 1980. 3 qtd. in Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890. 97 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | SP
's son, Nicholas Farrar Hughes
, was born at home in Plath's and Hughes
's house, Court Green in Devon, and named after the seventeenth-century Nicholas Ferrar
, whom Ted Hughes claimed as... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Clifford | Though LAC
was at enmity with her first husband's brother Edward Sackville
(because her husband left all his assets to her while his brother received little but the title), she enjoyed a friendship with his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Nichols | The night of blessing comes to interrupt the poet's unhappy relationship with No-Sleep, which Like a cruel lover or spiteful mistress . . . demands my restless attentiveness. Nichols, Grace. “The Saturday poem: One Night Comes Like a Blessing”. theguardian.com, 25 Feb. 2017. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate O'Brien | KOB
indicates her seriousness by her choice of title: it is quoted from a sonnet by George Herbert
which consists entirely of definitions or periphrases for prayer, of which this is one. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 117 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Hester Pulter | The poem that stands first in the volume, The Eclipse, characteristically combines religious with physical, cosmic imagery. The poet's soul longs to return whence she had her birth, Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Editor Eardley, Alice, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014. 47 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | Cope makes free with the category Tumps (typically useless male poets), yet her poems to or about men are typically loving in tone: for her father, her husband, George Herbert
(who is Dear George although... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sheenagh Pugh | SP
cites her favourite English-language poet as the Scottish ChaucerianRobert Henryson
. Other favourites include Sir Thomas Wyatt
, George Herbert
, Louis MacNeice
, Louise Glück
, and Edwin Morgan
. SP
has... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke | The fact that Mary Sidney did not print the psalms, as she did her brother's poems, says something about her attitudes both to print and to her own ranked and gendered identity as an author... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | EF
says her fiction and poetry come from different parts of herself: the voice, the cadences, the rhythms are very different. She sees fiction as involving impersonation of other people. qtd. in Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press, 2001. 180 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God. Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. 13 |
Literary responses | Mary Ferrar | The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot
's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Isham | Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, 5 Apr. 2011. 1636 Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke. 26r |