Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | Some aspects of this fiction suggest an allegory on ES
's relation with Tchelitchew. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. 209 Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985. 248-9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sally Purcell | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Beyond These Voices. Hutchinson, 1910. 68 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Plath | This poem, which reflects her reading in Henry James
, Scott Fitzgerald
, and Charles Baudelaire
, expresses whimsical regret that the days of ogres and dragons, perils and combat, knights and princesses, have passed. Plath, Sylvia. “Ennui”. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, Vol. 5 , No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2006. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine Greer | The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles
and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan
, via Charles Baudelaire
, T. S. Eliot |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Cannan | Not only class, but class and national ideology is under the microscope here. The idea of Englishness is much appealed to. Price admonishes Lisa (who prattles freely of art and Aristotle
and Baudelaire
, though... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Georgette Heyer | The novel follows the paradigm of the Cinderella story, or rather that of King Cophetua and the beggar maid, where the lover's power, instead of the power of magic, raises up the abject heroine. Reworking... |
Literary responses | Ada Leverson | Robert Ross
closed A Note of Explanation which he contributed to the book in a tone of well-meant condescension: if Prospero is dead we value all the more the little memories of Miranda. Leverson, Ada, and Oscar Wilde. “Reminiscences of the Author”. Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, Duckworth, 1930, pp. 19-49. 16 |
Literary responses | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Most reviews of Vespertilia and Other Verses were extremely positive, though only one of them (by Norman Gale
in Academy) mentioned the other books published under RMW
's different pseudonyms. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Literary responses | Graham Greene | George Orwell
, once a colonial policeman himself, criticized the book harshly for its fascination with damnation and suicide. As he put it, Greene harboured the idea, which has been floating around ever since Baudelaire |
Occupation | Edgar Allan Poe | EAP
laboured for years as a journalist and editor. Although he had many publications prior to the 1845 publication of The Raven and Other Poems, it was this work that firmly established his popular... |
Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake
... |
Author summary | Oscar Wilde | OW
's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol
, events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | The book appeared with the original French on opposite pages from the translations. The second edition appeared the same year, with the title modified to Flowers of Evil, from the French of Charles Baudelaire... |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford |
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