John Lucas

Standard Name: Lucas, John,, b. 1937

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Anne Stevenson
AS described this as my favourite book.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes.
9: 286
Beside her best poems, wrote John Lucas in the New Statesman about this volume, most other contemporary poetry looks patched, clumsy or scuffed.
Stevenson, Anne. The Fiction-Makers. Oxford University Press, 1985.
jacket
Literary responses Sylvia Kantaris
This book was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Kantaris, Sylvia. Lad’s Love. Bloodaxe Books, 1993.
back pages
David Profumo in the Sunday Times praised the collaboration as [q]uirky and riddling and fleet of foot.John Kerrigan in the London Review of Books...
Textual Production Nancy Cunard
John Lucas edited from the typescript in the Bodleian LibraryPoems of Nancy Cunard, for Nottingham Trent University 's Trent Editions.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Cunard, Nancy. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Sandeep Parmar, Carcanet, 2016, p. xi - xli.
xxxvii
Textual Production Nancy Cunard
In 1943 NC began to work on collecting her poetry for an edition, as advised by Edward John Thompson , a fellow political radical and poetry editor for Benn publishers. The edition came to nothing...

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Texts

Lucas, John, b. 1937. “Republican versus Victorian: Radical Writing in the Later Years of the Nineteenth Century”. Rethinking Victorian Culture, edited by Juliet John and Alice Jenkins, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 29-45.
Klaus, H. Gustav. “Socialist Fiction in the 1930s: Some Preliminary Observations”. The 1930s: A Challenge to Orthodoxy, edited by John, b. 1937 Lucas, Harvester, 1978, pp. 13-41.
Lucas, John, b. 1937. “The exclusive eye”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4516, p. 1148.
Lucas, John, b. 1937. The Literature of Change. 2nd ed., Harvester Press, 1980.
Cunard, Nancy. The Poems of Nancy Cunard. Editor Lucas, John, b. 1937, Nottingham Trent University, 2005.