Word: ann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Mary Ann Radner, a recent Wellesley graduate, writes lucid, formal, sensually immediate lyrics and writes a great many of them: two are here. She engineers a fine collaboration of sight and sound...
...MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO by Ann Radcliffe. 672 pages. Oxford...
...Rather little wool for a very great cry." George Saintsbury's epigram was Ann Radcliffe's epitaph; for more than a century her quaint gothic masterpiece has been buried among bookworms. Yet for half a century before that, from 1794 until the triumph of Dickens and Thackeray, The Mysteries of Udolpho was an international bestseller, acclaimed by Coleridge as "the most interesting novel in the English language." It enchanted Keats, who under its influence wrote The Eve of St. Agnes; it electrified Byron, who stole its hero and called him Childe Harold; it directly inspired Sir Walter Scott...
Three other skilled poets, Mary Ann Radner, David Chesire, and Tom Kirby-Smith, have made competent but uninspiring contributions. Kirby-Smith close translation of Bauderlaire's "Swan" is especially solid, but it remains foreign-sounding and a little stodgy when compared to Robert Lowell's "imitation" of the poem...