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Andrew Motion's "Love in a Life"
W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 1993 "Such Closets to Search": Andrew Motion's "Love in a Life" Lisa Marie Haarlander College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Haarlander, Lisa Marie, ""Such Closets to Search": Andrew Motion's "Love in a Life"" (1993). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539625825. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-8sd0-2t31 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “SUCH CLOSETS TO SEARCH”: ANDREW MOTION’S LOVE IN A LIFE A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of English The College of William and Mary in Virginia In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Lisa Haarlander 1993 APPROVAL SHEET This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Lj/sa Marie Haarlander Approved, July 1993 Henry Hart, Chair Willis, Jr. Thomas Heacox For those without whose enduring faith this may not have been ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The writer wishes to express her thanks to Professor Henry Hart for his encouragement and guidance in this venture. The author is also indebted to Professor J. H. Willis, Jr. and Professor Thomas Heacox for their thoughtful readings of both the thesis and the poems, and for their insightful comments. -
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? Directed by Anand Tucker Starring Colin Firth Jim Broadbent Juliet Stevenson Official Selection 2007 Toronto International Film Festival East Coast Publicity West Coast Publicity Distributor IHOP Block Korenbrot Sony Pictures Classics Jeff Hill Melody Korenbrot Carmelo Pirrone Jessica Uzzan Ziggy Kozlowski Leila Guenancia 853 7th Ave, 3C 110 S. Fairfax Ave, #310 550 Madison Ave New York, NY 10019 Los Angeles, CA 90036 New York, NY 10022 212-265-4373 tel 323-634-7001 tel 212-833-8833 tel 212-247-2948 fax 323-634-7030 fax 212-833-8844 fax Visit the website at: www.whendidyoulastseeyourfathermovie.com Short Synopsis When Did You Last See Your Father? is an unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur’s terminal illness and imminent death. Blake’s memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and teens are interspersed with tender and heart- rending scenes in the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of conflict, and learns to accept that one’s parents are not always accountable to their children. Directed by Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie), from a screenplay by David Nicholls, adapted from Blake Morrison’s novel of the same name, the film stars Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Gina McKee, Claire Skinner, and Matthew Beard. Long Synopsis Arthur Morrison (Jim Broadbent), and his wife Kim (Juliet Stevenson), are doctors in the same medical practice in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, England. They have two children, Gillian (Claire Skinner), and her older brother Blake (Colin Firth)Blake is a forty - year-old established author, married with two children and confronted with the fact that his father is terminally ill. -
1. Philip Larkin
Notes References to material held in the Philip Larkin Archive lodged in the Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull (BJL), are given as file numbers preceded by 'DPL'. 1. PHILIP LARKIN 1. Harry Chambers, 'Meeting Philip Larkin', in Larkin at Sixty, ed. Anthony Thwaite (London: Faber and Faber, 1982) p. 62. 2. John Haffenden, Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation (London, Faber and Faber, 1981) p. 127. 3. Christopher Ricks, Beckett's Dying Words (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). 4. D. J. Enright, 'Down Cemetery Road: the Poetry of Philip Larkin', in Conspirators and Poets (London: Chatto & Windus, 1966) p. 142. 5. Hugo Roeffaers, 'Schriven tegen de Verbeelding', Streven, vol. 47 (December 1979) pp. 209-22. 6. Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life (London: Faber and Faber, 1993). 7. Philip Larkin, Required Writing (London: Faber and Faber, 1983) p. 48. 8. See Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985, ed. Anthony Thwaite (London: Faber and Faber, 1992) pp. 648-9. 9. DPL 2 (in BJL). 10. DPL 5 (in BJL). 11. Kingsley Amis, Memoirs (London: Hutchinson, 1991) p. 52. 12. Philip Larkin, Introduction to Jill (London: The Fortune Press, 1946; rev. edn. Faber and Faber, 1975) p. 12. 13. Donald Davie, Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973) p. 64. 14. Required Writing, p. 297. 15. Blake Morrison, 'In the grip of darkness', The Times Literary Supplement, 14-20 October 1988, p. 1152. 16. Lisa Jardine, 'Saxon violence', Guardian, 8 December 1992. 17. Bryan Appleyard, 'The dreary laureate of our provincialism', Independent, 18 March 1993. 18. Ian Hamilton, 'Self's the man', The Times Literary Supplement, 2 April 1993, p. -
RESEARCH FRAMEWORK 100 the Derwent Valley 100 95 95
DERWENT VALLEY MILLS DERWENT VALLEY 100 The Derwent Valley 100 95 95 75 The Valley that changed the World 75 25 DERWENT VALLEY MILLS WORLD HERITAGE SITE 25 5 RESEARCH FRAMEWORK 5 0 0 Edited by David Knight Inscriptions on UNESCO's SITE RESEARCH FRAMEWORK WORLD HERITAGE prestigious World Heritage List are based on detailed research into the sites' evolution and histories. The role of research does not end with the presentation of the nomination or indeed the inscription itself, which is rst and foremost a starting point. UNESCO believes that continuing research is also central to the preservation and interpretation of all such sites. I therefore wholeheartedly welcome the publication of this document, which will act as a springboard for future investigation. Dr Mechtild Rössler, Director of the UNESCO Division for Heritage and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre 100 100 95 95 75 75 ONIO MU IM N R D T IA A L P W L O A I 25 R 25 D L D N H O E M R E I T I N A O GE IM 5 PATR 5 United Nations Derwent Valley Mills Educational, Scientific and inscribed on the World 0 Cultural Organisation Heritage List in 2001 0 Designed and produced by Derbyshire County Council, County Hall, Matlock Derbyshire DE4 3AG Research Framework cover spread print 17 August 2016 14:18:36 100 100 95 95 DERWENT VALLEY MILLS WORLD HERITAGE SITE 75 75 RESEARCH FRAMEWORK 25 25 5 Edited by David Knight 5 0 0 Watercolour of Cromford, looking upstream from the bridge across the River Derwent, painted by William Day in 1789. -
The Figuring of W.B.Yeats in Seamus Heaney' Poems and Prose
9ROXPH,,,,VVXH,,$SULO,661 The figuring of W.B.Yeats in Seamus Heaney’ poems and prose Nagendra Singh Gangola Research Scholar M.B.G.P.G College, Haldwani Uttarakhand India Abstract Yeats has been a constant presence in Heaney’s criticism since the late 1970s, and a central figure in his consideration of poetic influence. Auden, in his elegy for Yeats on his death in 1939, famously said that ‘The Poet became his admirers.’[1] One of the admirers Yeats has most crucially become is Seamus Heaney. The strenuousness of Heaney’s ongoing engagement with Yeats is of keen interest not least because it sets him in the midst of one of the most fraught and contentious debates in recent Irish literary and cultural criticism, in which the voice of Seamus Deane has been particularly penetrating, with its articulation of Yeats’s later career as an exercise in ‘the pathology of literary Unionism’, and with its inveighing against a criticism complaisantly tolerant of certain presumptively Yeatsian procedures in contemporary Northern Irish poetry which appear to propose that ‘The literature – autonomous, ordered – stands over against the political system in its savage disorder.’ But it is of keen interest also because Heaney’s place in Irish national life is of a kind that no Irish poet since Yeats has enjoyed, or endured. The relationship between Heaney and Yeats which this paper is going to discuss here is an affair of peculiar delicacy, in which the bold but wary subtleties of Heaney’s negotiations over the years may have been almost matched by the subtleties of suspicious scrutiny to which they have been subjected. -
Sean O'brien, Peter Didsbury, Michael Hofmann; and Original Poetry Collection
Contemporary pastoral : Sean O'Brien, Peter Didsbury, Michael Hofmann; and original poetry collection. WILLIAMS, Anthony David Henry. Available from Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20544/ This document is the author deposited version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. Published version WILLIAMS, Anthony David Henry. (2009). Contemporary pastoral : Sean O'Brien, Peter Didsbury, Michael Hofmann; and original poetry collection. Doctoral, Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom).. Copyright and re-use policy See http://shura.shu.ac.uk/information.html Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive http://shura.shu.ac.uk REFERENCE ProQuest Number: 10701191 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10701191 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 Contemporary Pastoral: Sean O’Brien, Peter Didsbury, Michael Hofmann; and Original Poetry Collection Anthony David Henry Williams A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Sheffield Hallam University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy March 2009 Supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council Abstract Landscape reflects and informs the history which shapes it, the society of which it forms a part, and the culture and identity of its inhabitants. -
The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000
This page intentionally left blank The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950--2000 In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. Head’s study is the most exhaustive survey of post-war British fiction available. It includes chapters on the state and the novel, class and social change, gender and sexual identity, national identity, and multiculturalism. Throughout Head places novels in their social and historical context. He highlights the emergence and prominence of particular genres and links these developments to the wider cultural context. He also provides provocative readings of important individual novelists, particularly those who remain staple reference points in the study of the subject. In a concluding chapter Head speculates on the topics that might preoccupy novelists, critics, and students in the future. Accessible, wide-ranging, and designed specifically for use on courses, this is the most current introduction to the subject available. It will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike. Dominic Head is Professor of English at Brunel University and was formerly Reader in Contemporary Literature and Head of the School of English at the University of Central England. He is the author of The Modernist Short Story (Cambridge, 1992), Nadine Gordimer (Cambridge, 1994), and J. M. Coetzee (Cambridge, 1997). The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950--2000 DOMINIC HEAD Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521660143 © Dominic Head 2002 This book is in copyright. -
Penguin Classics
PENGUIN CLASSICS A Complete Annotated Listing www.penguinclassics.com PUBLISHER’S NOTE For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, providing readers with a library of the best works from around the world, throughout history, and across genres and disciplines. We focus on bringing together the best of the past and the future, using cutting-edge design and production as well as embracing the digital age to create unforgettable editions of treasured literature. Penguin Classics is timeless and trend-setting. Whether you love our signature black- spine series, our Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, or our eBooks, we bring the writer to the reader in every format available. With this catalog—which provides complete, annotated descriptions of all books currently in our Classics series, as well as those in the Pelican Shakespeare series—we celebrate our entire list and the illustrious history behind it and continue to uphold our established standards of excellence with exciting new releases. From acclaimed new translations of Herodotus and the I Ching to the existential horrors of contemporary master Thomas Ligotti, from a trove of rediscovered fairytales translated for the first time in The Turnip Princess to the ethically ambiguous military exploits of Jean Lartéguy’s The Centurions, there are classics here to educate, provoke, entertain, and enlighten readers of all interests and inclinations. We hope this catalog will inspire you to pick up that book you’ve always been meaning to read, or one you may not have heard of before. To receive more information about Penguin Classics or to sign up for a newsletter, please visit our Classics Web site at www.penguinclassics.com. -
Here, Megan Oliver, a Third-Year Student of English and History, and Clare Ní Cheallaigh, Who Has Just Completed Her Degree In
Here, Megan Oliver, a third-year student of English and History, and Clare Ní Cheallaigh, who has just completed her degree in English and Classics, consider the personal, political, and literary implications of the appearance of two poems by Seamus Heaney in Young Commonwealth Poets ’65 (1965) an anthology edited by P. L. Brent. Some of Seamus Heaney’s most recognisable lines of verse come from An Open Letter, which was published in pamphlet form by the Field Day Theatre Company in 1983. In this 198-line poem, he urges the reader to: Be advised My passport’s green. No glass of ours was ever raised To toast The Queen. This confident assertion of Irish national identity came as a direct response to Heaney’s inclusion in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry (1982), edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion. Heaney objected to Morrison and Motion’s definition of him as “British”. An Open Letter constitutes a sustained criticism of their decision which, as James Fenton later discussed in the New York Review of Books, they received with shock and dismay. What has perhaps made the lines above so memorable is their contrast to what was sometimes regarded as the politically tentative tone of Heaney’s poetry. Here we find not the cautious teasing through of complex issues that is characteristic of Heaney, but instead an unqualified pronouncement of identity, an active rejection of Britain and the British monarch. However, as Fenton also noted, it is not surprising that Morrison and Motion were shocked at Heaney’s response, considering that his poetry had “previously appeared in at least six anthologies with the word “British” in the title.” One of those anthologies, Young Commonwealth Poets ’65, is featured in this exhibition. -
Introduction
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09066-8 - The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945–2010 Edited by Edward Larrissy Excerpt More information EDWARD LARRISSY Introduction A plausible starting point for a volume dealing with British poetry of the latter half of the twentieth century might be the early fi fties, with the advent of the ‘Movement’ announcing a new dry tone, often ironic and sometimes disillusioned, appropriate to a society which had undergone a war that came to the heart of its cities, and to a nation whose empire was vanishing. Yet the Movement cannot be separated from the literary world which preceded it: its critical ideas centred on a reaction against the supposed ‘Neo-Romanticism’ of the forties; while on the other hand its productions included distinct traces of the poetics it was supposedly erasing. The Romanticism of Larkin’s The North Ship (1945) persists in subtle and attenuated form in the bleak plan- gency of his ‘less deceived’ Movement period. John Wain’s early poetic line is palpably indebted to Dylan Thomas. Thom Gunn’s loyalty to Reason begins its career in an obviously Byronic mode: this is as true of his leather-clad motorcyclists or his portrayal of Elvis Presley as it is of his sketch of Byron in his sonnet ‘Lerici’. 1 And at the same time it is possible to make a balanc- ing point in the other direction. Few would now accept the partisan jibes fl ung at Thomas, which portray him as a free-associating visionary, drunk on high-sounding verbiage. As William Empson recognised, Thomas believed a poem should go through the head as well as the heart, and he learnt very deliberately from Donne and Eliot. -
The Great Ideas Online
THE GREAT IDEAS ONLINE Mar ‘08 No 461 THE READING CURE The idea that literature can make us emotionally and physically stronger goes back to Plato. But now book groups are proving that Shakespeare can be as beneficial as self-help guides. Blake Morrison investigates the rise of bibliotherapy t a reading group in Birkenhead, nine women and two men A are looking at Act 1 scene 2 of The Winter’s Tale, in which Leontes and his wife Hermione urge their guest, Polixenes, not to rush off back to Bohemia. Some of the language is difficult to grasp: what’s meant by “He’s beat from his best ward”? or “We’ll thwack him hence with distaffs”? But thanks to the promptings of the group leader, Jane Davis (from the Reader Centre at the Uni- versity of Liverpool), Shakespeare’s meanings are slowly un- locked, and discussion ranges widely over the various issues the passage raises: jealous men, flirtatious women, royal decorum and what to do with guests who outstay their welcome. The rise of book groups is one of the most heartening phenomena of our time, but this is an unusual one, including as it does Val and Chris from a homeless hostel, Stephen who suffers from agorapho- bia and panic attacks and hasn’t worked for 15 years, Brenda 2 who’s bipolar, Jean who’s recovering from the death of her hus- band, and Louise who has Asperger’s syndrome. Most of the group are avid readers but for one or two it’s their first experience of Shakespeare since school.