Charles Baudelaire

She had been interested in Catholicism for many years, and had allied her thinking with neo-Thomism, a reaching back to medieval thought which saw material world as a reflection of the immaterial reality of God...

At the age of ten Anna started attending school in Tsarskoe Selo, but fell ill a few months later and had to withdraw. She learnt French at home and by the age of thirteen...

NB wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future...

As a child, says MR , she lived much of the time in my imagination and in books. The bookcase her mother had had as a student, the local public library, and the local church...

She already felt the terrible misery of being so young and ignorant. Years later, when her art education had come to a halt for lack of money, she went to the local Public Library...

From April to June 1932 Millay and Dillon were in Paris together. Dillon had just, in his turn, won the Pulitzer Prize, and had a Guggenheim fellowship to support him, modestly, for the sake of...

Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott , Baudelaire , Dumas , Rostand 's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees.

As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire : Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title...

The protagonist is of this light-heartedly surrealist and paradoxically serious tale is Samuel Cramer, the main character of a Charles Baudelaire story,, now unnaturalistically aged and running a rooming-house in Africa. He has written a...

VL 's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby finds...

This book received mixed reviews. The Athenæum referred to the volumes as awful (presumably meaning that they inspired awe) and noted that the narrative part of [them] is very well done. Critic...

Charles Henri Ford dedicated to ES his study The Mirror of Baudelaire.

In this spoof erotic Baudelairean fantasy, a Poet interviews the Egyptian Sphinx.

AD 's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster , T. S. Eliot , Dickinson

ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...