George Herbert

FRH was an avid reader within limits: her selection of material was mostly dictated by her religious interests. After receiving a copy of a book about literary women she commented, The sad sketch of L. E. L.

ML was taught to read by her aunt Hannah Tireman , a professional upholsterer. She said later that she began to read both prose and poetry with avidity at an early age. Her...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. For the craft of...

She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God. She then posits an absolute human need for meaning and for myth (the core...

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. Nichol's range of reference is huge, taking...

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. The novel...

MC was said to have loved poetry from her childhood. She admired George Herbert , and Horace in English translation, because of their freedom from heroic or military sentiment.

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, but is bound by...

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...

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. It is clear...