Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967) “If my poems, as you say, have an aspect of femininity, it is of course quite natural. After all, fortunately, I am a woman. But if you speak of artistic merits, I think gender cannot play a role. In fact to even voice such a suggestion is unethical. It is natural that […]
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Foremother Poet: Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967): a courageous Persian woman
Posted in 20th century, 21st century, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, politics, women's art, women's poetry, tagged feminism, foremother poet, symbolic women, women's life-writing, women's poetry on October 13, 2022| 6 Comments »
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000): Foremother poet, African American Sharp Radical
Posted in 20th century, 21st century, African-American, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, women artists, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged African-American, feminism, foremother poet, symbolic women on February 27, 2022| 7 Comments »
From a recent essay on Brooks by Doreen St Felix (New Yorker, 2018) To Prisoners I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark. Dark gardening in the vertigo cold. in the hot paralysis. Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences. Where it is dry. Where it is dry. I call for you […]
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79): A foremother poet’s poet
Posted in 20th century, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, reading life, women artists, women's memoirs, women's poetry, tagged Elizabeth Bishop, feminism, foremother poet, lesbian art, symbolic women, women's poetry on November 3, 2020| 1 Comment »
Elizabeth Bishop and her cat in a car Dear friends and readers, Of the many women poets I’ve written a foremother blog about, just now Elizabeth Bishop may be the best known — both for her poetry and about her life and letters. There is a recent consensus about her importance and transcendence (if that’s […]
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962): foremother poet, wondrous prose writer, gardener
Posted in 20th century, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, landscapes, literary biography, women's art, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged feminism, foremother poet, homosexual characters, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, women artists, women's life-writing, women's novels, women's poetry on July 31, 2020| 2 Comments »
Knole, Kent, the house, begun in 1456, greatly extended c.1603, on a frosty December day Winter. Blackout. Quiet. The tick of clock Shall bring you peace, To your uncertain soul Give slow increase. The blackened windows shut This inward room Where you may be alone As in the tomb. A tomb of life not death, […]
Foremother poet: Mary Jones (1707-78), Chantress
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged feminism, foremother poet, letters, women's life-writing, women's poetry on February 15, 2020| 2 Comments »
In one of her poem’s a heelpiece to a lady’s shoe (18th century of course) speaks Her self-description: “a Traveller or Pilgrim, wandering about from House to House, in order to partake of the Benevolence of such good People [to her friends living in Windsor Forest] as you are … ” (ie., poor but honest […]
Retrospective: foremother poets, women painters, actresses
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, 18th century poetry, 18thc actresses, Austen's life, costume drama, early modern women, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, women artists, women's art, women's poetry, tagged actresses, women artists on November 26, 2019| 4 Comments »
Mary Wollstonecraft (1758-97) “I don’t believe you realise how much the war has stung our generation. We have had the bottom of things knocked out completely, we have been sent reeling into the chaos and it seems to us that none of your standards are either fixed or necessarily good because in the end they […]
Two early modern American foremother poets: Anne Bradstreet, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Posted in 18th century, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, Renaissance women, women artists, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Anne Bradstreet, lesbian, Sor Juana, women artists, women's life-writing on March 6, 2018| 5 Comments »
Pilgrim children dressed for church (17th century American art and dress) Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours (Bradstreet, “The Prologue”) In darkness foundering Words fail the troubled mind. For who, I ask, can light me When Reason is blind? (Sor Juana, “On the effects of Divine Love”) Dear friends and readers, Among the delights […]
One Life: Sylvia Plath (1932-63): foremother poet
Posted in 20th century, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, historical-literary study, women's art, women's novels, women's poetry, tagged foremother poet, Sylvia Plath on September 16, 2017| 11 Comments »
Photo taken during Plath’s college years — this is one of my favorites (not in the exhibit) One of several self-portraits in the exhibit — she is imitating the popular “abstract” style of the 1950s Pursuit By Sylvia Plath Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. Racine There is a panther stalks me […]
Lucy Hutchinson (1620-81): foremother poet and biographer
Posted in 18th century, conference-paper report, early modern women, epistolary narrative, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, reading life, womens lives, tagged foremother poet, letters, Lucy Hutchinson on April 11, 2017| 2 Comments »
Lucy Hutchinson with one of her sons ‘Yet after all this he is gone hence and I remain, an airy phantasm walking about his sepulchre and waiting for the harbinger of day to summon me out of these midnight shades to my desired rest — Lucy Hutchinson, Final Meditation’ I write not for the presse […]
Foremother Poet: Joyce Anstruther (Maxtone Graham) (1901–1953)
Posted in 20th century, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, politics, women's art, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Joyce Anstruther, Mrs Miniver, women's life-writing, women's novels, women's poetry on February 25, 2015| 4 Comments »
Joyce or Jan Struther or Anstruther (1945) Dear friends and readers, This is not a foremother poet blog in the mode I used to write them: it’s a preliminary sketch for one. This week I had occasion to read the screenplay for Mrs Miniver and watch the 1942 movie; moved by the script and film, […]
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