Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby

Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby
Author: Antony Webb
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1443845612

This book was conceived after reading Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth and Testament of Friendship. Winifred Holtby died very early after suffering from Bright’s Disease – renal failure – aged only 37 in 1935. Into these years, she crammed more than most people achieve in an average life. She was a kind, gentle and very generous person; she had a strong belief in equality of sex, race and status, and was a very strong feminist. She became a Director of the feminist newspaper Time and Tide. She wrote several novels, the most famous being South Riding. During her life, she also wrote many poems but they were not published, apart from 16 in a very small book called Frozen Earth and Other Poems (1935). The Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby captures the majority of her poetical works, which point to periods in her life, including the WAAC during 1918, (“Trains in France”); her time in South Africa in 1928 (“Hills of the Transvaal”); and the problems she had with Harry Pearson, her “boy friend that isn’t a boyfriend” (“The Dead Man,” “Epilogue to Romance,” “The Robber” and “The Grudging Ghost”). The span of the poems range from examples of her early work (“Namely Only” and “Sad Ascension Day”), which should appeal to children and young adults; to “The Debt,” which describes Winifred’s feeling of the debt she thought she owed to life, which gives the reader an idea of the caring person that she was; through to one poignant poem which she wrote towards the end of her life, “The Valley of Shadows,” which is a poem of love and thankfulness and shows the debt she considered she owed to her close friend Vera Britttain.

Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology

Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology
Author: Jane Dowson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2008-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134790546

Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles,social values and world politics,women produced a rich variety of poetry.But until now their work has largely been lost or ignored;in Women's Poetry of the 1930s Jane Dowson finally redresses the balance and recovers women's place in the literary history of the interwar years.This comprehensive and beautifully edited collection includes: *Previously uncollected poems by authors such as Winifred Holtby and Naomi Mitchison *Poems which are now out of print,such as those by Vita Sackville-West and Frances Cornford *Poems previously neglected by poets including Ann Ridler and Sylvia Townsend Warner *An extensive critical introduction and individual biographies of each poet Poetry lovers,students and scholars alike will find Women's Poetry of the 1930s an invaluable resource and a collection to treasure.

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s
Author: Janet Montefiore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134915012

This book examines in detail the contribution of women writers through their memoirs, fiction and poetry to the literature of the 1930s. The author challenges the traditional literary analyses of this dynamic and politically charged decade.

Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910–1939

Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910–1939
Author: Jane Dowson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 135187151X

Primarily a literary history, Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939 provides a timely discussion of individual women poets who have become, or are becoming, well-known as their works are reprinted but about whom little has yet been written. This volume recognizes the contributions, overlooked previously, of such British poets as Anna Wickham, Nancy Cunard, Edith Sitwell, Mina Loy, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, Vita Sackville-West and Sylvia Townsend Warner; and the impact of such American poets as H.D., Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore and Laura Riding on literary practice in Britain. This book primarily maps the poetry scene in Britain but identifies the significance of the network of writers between London, New York and Paris. It assesses women's participation in the diversity of modernist developments which include avant-garde experiments, quiet, but subtly challenging, formalism and assertive 'new woman' voices. It not only chronicles women's poetry but also their publications and involvement in running presses, bookshops and writing criticism. Although historically situated, it is written from the perspective of contemporary debates concerning the interface of gender and modernism. The author argues that a cohering aesthetic of the poetry is a denial of femininity through various evasions of gendered identity such as masking, male and female impersonations and the rupturing of realist modes.

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Author: Peter Howarth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139502328

Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.

The Oxford Book of Poetry

The Oxford Book of Poetry
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 3772
Release: 2023-11-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

The Oxford poetry anthologies ('Oxford Books') are traditionally considered an establishment in attitude. They have been edited by well-known poets and distinguished academics. In the perspective of canon-formation, they have been retrospective and well-researched. Table of Contents: The Oxford Book of Latin Verse: Nvma Pompilivs The Arval Brotherhood Anonymous CN. Naevivs T. Maccivs Plavtvs Marcivs Vates Q. Ennivs M. Pacvvivs L. Accivs Pompilivs Valerivs Aeditvvs Q. Lvtativs Catvlvs Porcivs Licinvs Laevivs M. Fvrivs Bibacvlvs Oracvlvm M. Tvllivs Cicero C. Helvivs Cinna M. Tvllivs Lavrea Q. Tvllivs Cicero C. Ivlivs Caesar C. Licinivs Macer Calvvs T. Lvcretivs Carvs C. Valerivs Catvllvs L. Varivs C. Cilnivs Maecenas P. Vergilivs Maro Q. Horativs Flaccvs Albivs Tibvllvs Domitivs Marsvs Sextvs Propertivs Lygdamvs Svlpicia Panegyristae Messallae Cornelivs Severvs M. Manilivs Albinovanvs Pedo P. Ovidivs Naso... The Oxford Book of English Verse: Robert Mannyng of Brunne John Barbour Geoffrey Chaucer Thomas Hoccleve John Lydgate King James I of Scotland Robert Henryson William Dunbar Anonymous John Skelton Stephen Hawes Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Nicholas Grimald Alexander Scott Robert Wever Richard Edwardes George Gascoigne... The Oxford Book of Ballads: Thomas the Rhymer Tam Lin Sir Cawline Sir Aldingar Cospatrick Willy's Lady The Queen of Elfland's Nourice Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight The Riddling Knight May Colvin The Wee Wee Man Alison Gross Kemp Owyne The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea King Orfeo King Henry The Boy and the Mantle King Arthur and King Cornwall The Marriage of Sir Gawain... Modern Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry 1917 Oxford Poetry 1919 Oxford Poetry 1920 Oxford Poetry 1921 Oxford Lectures on Poetry: Poetry for Poetry's Sake The Sublime Hegel's Theory of Tragedy Wordsworth Shelley's View of Poetry The Long Poem in the Age of Wordsworth The Letters of Keats The Rejection of Falstaff Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra' Shakespeare the Man Shakespeare's Theatre and Audience

Oxford Poetry, 1920

Oxford Poetry, 1920
Author: Various
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Oxford Poetry, 1920" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Testament of Friendship

Testament of Friendship
Author: Vera Brittain
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-03-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1405515554

WRITTEN WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARK BOSTRIDGE In her bestselling first volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the destruction of a generation which for her included those she most dearly loved - her lover, her brother and her closest friends. In Testament of Friendship Brittain tells the story of the woman who helped her survive those tragic years - the writer Winifred Holtby. They met at Somerville College, Oxford, immediately after the war. Their friendship continued through Vera's marriage and their separate but parallel writing careers until Winifred's untimely death at the age of thirty-seven. When she died, her fame as a writer was about to reach its peak with the publication of her greatest novel, South Riding. A moving record of a friendship between two women of courage, determination and intelligence and a wonderful portrait of a lifelong love. Testament of Friendship now takes its rightful place as a Virago Modern Classic.

The Twentieth Century in Poetry

The Twentieth Century in Poetry
Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2008-01-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134696604

Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student-friendly critical survey includes chapters on: * the Georgians * First World War poetry * Eliot * Yeats * the thirties * post-war poetry * contemporary anthologies * women's poetry * Northern Irish and black British poets It builds a narrative not of poetry in the twentieth century, but of the twentieth century in poetry.