Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
The Cunard Line
View through CrossRef
The chapter investigates Cunard’s identity as a poet, the challenges she faced as a woman poet, and the early publications of Outlaws (1921), Sublunary (1923), and Poems (Two) (1925). Marcus also explores Cunard’s involvement with the anti-war poetry anthology Wheels, her founding of The Hours Press, and the reception of her work by a male-dominated press. The author also discusses the early impetus behind her collection Negro Anthology and her political activism during the Spanish Civil War on behalf of poets from Harlem, Cuba, and The West Indies.
Title: The Cunard Line
Description:
The chapter investigates Cunard’s identity as a poet, the challenges she faced as a woman poet, and the early publications of Outlaws (1921), Sublunary (1923), and Poems (Two) (1925).
Marcus also explores Cunard’s involvement with the anti-war poetry anthology Wheels, her founding of The Hours Press, and the reception of her work by a male-dominated press.
The author also discusses the early impetus behind her collection Negro Anthology and her political activism during the Spanish Civil War on behalf of poets from Harlem, Cuba, and The West Indies.
Related Results
Lines of Division
Lines of Division
This chapter opens by acknowledging Nancy Cunard’s and Ezra Pound’s divided views on the Spanish Civil War but then argues for the importance of their collaborative associations be...
White Nympholepsy
White Nympholepsy
The chapter is an investigation into and meditation on whiteness, purity, and cleanliness, as the author contextualizes Cunard’s development and childhood surrounded by the literar...
Introduction to the Original Text
Introduction to the Original Text
Jane Marcus outlines her methodology and focus on Nancy Cunard as a poet, contextualizing Cunard’s involvement in the poetry scene with canonical figures of modernism, such as T.S....
Girlfriends, Boyfriends, and Bright Young Things
Girlfriends, Boyfriends, and Bright Young Things
The chapter explores Cunard’s circle of bohemian friends as it gives an analysis of women’s independence and the identification of that independence with lesbian sexuality. The cha...
Between Men
Between Men
Beginning with T.S. Eliot’s death and Cunard’s poem reflecting on their relationship, the chapter examines Cunard’s reputation and representation as it grew out of Eliot’s deleted ...
Intellectual Nomads
Intellectual Nomads
Alongside her analysis of Cunard’s memoir of George Moore, Marcus reads her 1954 account of travel writer, Norman Douglas, within the contexts of exile, English primitivism, and th...
Nancy Cunard
Nancy Cunard
In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and “sexually dangerous New Wom...
Race on the Wire
Race on the Wire
This chapter addresses Nancy Cunard’s extensive journalism for the Associated Negro Press, and her transparency in claiming that she made “no attempt at all at objective reporting”...