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Textual Features | Eleanor Tatlock | Among ET
's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical... |
Residence | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Leighton Bromswold has been at some dates assigned to Huntingdonshire. Eighty years after this, George Herbert
was to become prebendary there. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Herbert |
Reception | Christina Rossetti | Most of these had been previously issued as part of other religious writings such as The Face of the Deep. Verses sold well, and reviewers enthusiastically compared CR
's achievement to that of George Herbert |
Author summary | Mary Ferrar | MF
, hardly a writer herself; was the matriarch of a seventeenth-century family which lived like a religious community, and which seems to have composed dialogues and short moral histories collaboratively, as well as letters... |
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. 1636 Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke. 26r |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | |
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 | 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. |
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. 117 |
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. Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press. 180 |
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 | 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 . 47 |
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. 13 |
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