Poetry & Novels of Dorothy Cowlin;

Literature & Liberty.

Home page links to topics:

• Poetic art of Dorothy Cowlin: the novels.


• Interlude. 'The angry young men' and 'The Movement'.


• Poetic art of Dorothy Cowlin: verse.


• Cowlin's verse, from the 1990s.

  Record of poem publications, prizes, etc.

• Dorothy Cowlin's biographical novels.


• Dorothy's school days: The House By The River


• A young poet's sketches.

Reviews

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus.
  Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ): A Dark-adapted Eye.
• Monica Ali: To Brick Lane from David Copperfield.
• Isabel Allende: The Stories of Eva Luna.
• Novels by Margaret Atwood.
  Alias Grace; The Robber Bride; Cat's Eye.
• Alan Ayckbourn on plays.
• Julian Barnes: Arthur and George.
  A S Byatt: Possession. A romance.
• Robert Harris: Pompeii.
  Aldous Huxley: Island.
  Khalid Hosseini: The Kite Runner.
• Andrea Levy: Small Island.
• Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
  Ian McEwan's Atonement.
  McEwan's Saturday.
• James A Michener: Caribbean, etc
• Toni Morrison's Beloved.
• George Orwell: pre-war writings
  and against dictatorship.
• J B Priestley, man of letters.
  Part one: two world wars.
  Part two: before and after the wars.
• Bernice Rubens. Yesterday in the Back Lane.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• William Trevor: Felicia's Journey;
  and Ben Elton: Blast from the past.
• H G Wells. Scientific romances; 'free love' and marriage.



Movie review:

• Mars Attacks! Directed by Tim Burton.



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Issues etc.

• H G Wells' pre-internet idea of a World Brain.


• The franchise plummets to 11+ : Leslie Brewer's Vote for Richard.
  ( A children's story, 1948. )


• John Davidson: The Gospel of Jesus.


• Barbara Thiering's Christ in Qumran and Revelation.


• Renaissance man.
  Dmitri Merezhkovsky: The romance of Leonardo da Vinci
  Michael White: Leonardo, the first scientist.
  Irving Stone: The agony and the ecstasy ( novel on Michael Angelo );
  Lust for life ( novel on Vincent van Gogh ).


• Paul Erdos: Paul Hoffmann's The man who loved only numbers.

Verse

• Alienated
  A narration based on Colonel Philip Corso's The Day After Roswell,
  & other sources.
• Green Is History.
  Versed sample mainly of Clive Ponting's A Green History Of The World.
• Verse on Paul Harrison's Inside The Third World.


• If the poor are on the moon.
  A play about the prayers and works of Mother Teresa.


• Protest poems

Poetry archives

• Friedrich Max Muller: Old German Love Songs.
• JCF Schiller: Pompeii and Herculaneum and The Diver.
• Odes of Hafiz; Ballads of Francois Villon.
• Anonymous: The Vicar of Bray;
  Michael Drayton, Thomas Campion, Sir Henry Wotton,
  George Wither, Robert Herrick, Sir John Suckling, Henry Vaughan;
  John William Weidemeyer: The Song of Rorek.
• The Burial of Sir John Moore. Sea songs by Charles Dibdin;
  Poems by Charles Wolfe, Pierre Jean de Beranger, J T Trowbridge.
• John Gay, William Collins, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan.
  Basil Chamberlain's Japanese translations.
• Sir Edwin Arnold, Hugh Arthur Clough,
  William Allen Butler: Nothing to wear.
  Will Carleton, Charles Baudelaire, Francis Bourdillon.
• Irish translations by James Mangan;
  verse by Jane Barlow, William Watson, Celia Thaxter.
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti translations of Dante and Sacchetti.

• Boileau's The Art Of Poetry
• F Brunetiere: French poetry in the nineteenth century.
  En francais ( sans accents ) F Brunetiere: La poesie francaise du XIX siecle.

Short stories

• Lucian of Samosata: From The True History.
• Matteo Bandello: The Mischievous Ape;
  Ortensio Lando: A Lover of Lies.
• Eduard Dekker: The story of Saidjah and Adinda.
• Bret Harte: The outcasts of Poker Flat.
• Hjalmar Boyesen: A political episode.
• Frederick Cozzens: Living in the country.

Non-fiction archives

• Alcibiades: praise of Socrates.
• Pliny: The great eruption of Vesuvius.
• Sa'di: from The Gulistan.
• Jonathan Swift: Thoughts and Aphorisms.
• Richard Steele on Alexander Selkirk: the real Robinson Crusoe.
• Toussaint L'Ouverture by Wendell Phillips.
• Last respects to Abraham Lincoln from Phillips Brooks,
  Walt Whitman, Shirley Brooks.
• Massimo D'Azeglio: Moral up-bringing.
• Booker X? A 1950 review of Booker T Washington.
• R G Burnett's children's review of Up From Slavery.

• Arthur Helps: Unreasonable claims in social affections and relations.
  Arthur Helps: Thoughts in the cloister and the crowd.
• Philip Hamerton: The Power Of Time - study methods.

Archives acknowledgments largely to The International Library Of Famous Literature, chiefly edited by Richard Garnett. London, The Standard, 1900.

Poetry sites and magazines

• the Beat. After the Californian Beat generation.
• Dispatch Litareview. Down-loadable magazine.
• Interlude. Connected to the London independent arts scene.
• Kritya. 'The intense word power, which always moves along with the ultimate truth, which exists completely in accord with rightness.' Poetry from India and the world.
• Sentinel Poetry Movement.
  "...an international community of poets..." Also a source for the distinguished Nigerian literary scene.

Richard Lung thanks the writers' editor for a poetry page at You had to be there.

The web manager gratefully acknowledges the hosting of this Dorothy Cowlin literary site by Paradox Inc.org
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Copyright © Dorothy Cowlin.

Copyright © Richard Lung.

By the same web manager: Democracy science.

March 2007.