Index

abduction, 84

abstract nouns, 19

adjectives, 20, 25, 27, 28, 30

adventure, 82, 128

adverbs, 20, 25

Akhmatova, Anne, 9, 10

Allende, Isabel, 142

ambiguity, 15, 16

Ambit magazine, 139

anapaestic metre, 134

angle of vision, 23

Apollo, 99, 111, 164–5, 166

Aristotle, 77–81, 86

Athene, 164

Atwood, Margaret, 3, 13

Austen, Jane, 17, 18

Bacchae, The, 97

Bashō, 33–4

de Beauvoir, Simone, 1

Bennett, Alan, 60

Besford, Sonja, 115

Bettelheim, Bruno, 52

Bishop, Elizabeth, 114

Blake, William, 66–8, 71, 160

Bly, Robert, 98

Boyle, Kay, 39, 45

breathing, 131

Brecht, Bertolt, 2, 71

buddy movies, 85

Campbell, Joseph, 81–9

Carver, Raymond, 145–6

Cassandra, 165

Castaneda, Carlos, 5

change, 52–5

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste, 23

Chekov, Anton, 51, 53

cliché, 20, 165

climax, 78–9, 86

Colette, 5, 26–8

conflict, 43

Collett, Mike, 128

Conrad, Joseph, 4

conspiracy, 165

conversation, 142–3

Corbett, Jane, 157–8

Crawford, Katherine, 158–60

Dante, 142

daydreams, 94–5, 100–1

Demeter, 64, 86, 87

denouement, 80, 85

departure, 82, 84

description, 14–25, 26

development, 78

Dhuibhne, Eilis Ni, 126

dialect, 38

dialogue, 36–47

diary, 171–2

Dickens, Charles, 90–1

Dickinson, Emily, 18, 122, 124

Dionysius, 86, 97, 98, 99, 101, 107, 111

Doolittle, H., 92

Dorfman, Ariel, 85

Dove, Angela, 137

dreams, 82, 128

duality, 167

Duras, Marguerite, 72–3

Durrell, Lawrence, 1

dynamics, 135

Eliot, T. S., 33, 45, 48, 50, 114, 126

English sentence, the 30, 31, 167

epistolary novel, 95

Eurydice, 97

Evans, Martina, 133–44, 153–5

Ewart, Gavin, 111

fears, 61

feelings, 128

film scripts, 155–8

Fitzgerald, Scott, 127

Fowlers, H. W. & F. G., 24

Freud, Sigmund, 91, 94

gender and writing, 3

getting ready to write, 5

Gilgamesh, 85, 87, 88

Giorno, John, 109

Gittins, Chrissie, 112

Gittins, Diana, 102

Godfrey, Peter, 107

gossip, 109

Gothic horror, 60

Grace, Harriet, 151–3

Great Expectations, 90

Grimm’s fairy tales, 52, 63–5

Griffiths, Trevor, 57

Hades, 97

haiku, 33, 109

healing, 76, 92, 131

Heaney, Seamus, 149–50

Hemingway, Ernest, 15, 32, 69, 71

Hendricks, Gay and Kathlyn, 146

Hermes, 97

hero/heroine, 81–9

Hey, Celia de la, 116

Homer, 129

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 4

Hughes, Ted, 104

humour, 57–60, 65

impotence, 164

initiation, 78, 83, 86

inspiration, 165

irony, 49

James, Henry, 49, 90

James, William, 91

Jami, 147

Jane Eyre, 90, 123

jealousy, 72–5

journey, 80–9

Joyce, James, 41–2, 45, 85–6, 91

Jung, Carl Gustav, 161

junk, 92

Keats, John, 15

Klein, Melanie, 168

Larkin, Philip, 4

Lawrence, D. H., 36, 38, 44–5, 55, 126

Lessing, Doris, 168

Lewis, C. S., 142

Lewton, Anita, 155–7

London Magazine, The, 140

Lowell, Robert, 28–9, 171, 175

lyric poetry, 97

Mansfield, Katherine, 53, 54, 55

Márquez, Gabriel García, 93–4, 125

Marsyas, 164–5

Marx, Karl, 163

Maupassant, Guy de, 49–50

May, Tim, 108–9

Mayor, F. M., 90

McEwan, Ian, 46, 77–81

Melville, Hermann, 4

memory, 92

metaphor, 11, 12, 13, 68, 71, 73, 75, 125, 127, 128–34, 172

metre, 67, 113, 130

Milner, Marion, 173

Mnemosyne, 126

Montaigne, Michel de, 16, 51

Moore, Marianne, 175

Morrison, Toni, 142

Morrissey, 147

Mortimer, John, 164, 166

Muses, the, 98

myth, 76–89, 94, 143–4

Narcissus, 167, 179–80

narrative prose, 7, 48, 56, 66, 76, 90, 141, 161

naturalism, 43

Neruda, Pablo, 126–7

Nichols, Grace, 22

Nietzsche, 127

notebook, 9

nouns, 19, 20, 21

novel, 90–7

Oedipus, 97

Olsen, Tillie, 90, 93–4

opening, 77–8

opening the storehouse door, 6

Orpheus, 97

Ozick, Cynthia, 40, 45

performing your poems, 137

Persephone, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88

Pessoa, Fernando, 86

Piaget, Jean, 54

place, 14–25

Plath, Sylvia, 174

Plato, 143

pleasure principle, 165

Poe, Edgar Allan, 62–3, 65

Porter, Peter, 111

Postino, Il, 126

prophecy, 164

protest, 135

Proust, Marcel, 91

psychoanalysis, 91, 94, 114

Purse, Jill, 167

Qur’an, 147

realism, 43

reality principle, 165, 170

renga, 108–11

reparation, 79

research, 151–60

return, 83, 88

reworking, revising, 19, 170

rhythm (see also metre), 5, 69, 130, 135

Rich, Adrienne, 5, 8, 14, 24, 25, 92, 100, 141

Ringrose, John, 101–3, 105–6, 108, 112–13, 114, 118–19, 120

Rivers, Joan, 57

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 73–5, 164

Rosetti, Christina, 11, 12

rubaiyat, 120–2

Rycroft, Charles, 160

Sappho, 97, 162

schizophrenia, 166

sense of self, 166, 167, 171, 172

senses, 10, 27, 68, 69

Sexton, Anne, 175

Shakespeare, William, 2, 16, 50, 111–12, 142, 162

short story, 48–55

silence, 139, 168

simile, 11, 12, 125

Smedley Agnes, 7

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 7

spirit of place, 14–25

Stein, Gertrude, 175

Storr, Anthony, 161–3, 165, 166

style, 5

subject and object, 30

Sun, The, 125

taboo, 84

Tarantino, Quentin, 87

Tate, Allen, 175

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 128

Thomas, Dylan, 114

timbre, 135

Townsend, Sue, 58–60

Traherne, Thomas, 11, 12

Trevor, William, 77–81

tune, 135

Turnbull, Colin, 143

turning point, 79

useful addresses, 181–4

verbs, 20, 21, 25, 31

verse, 32

villanelle, 113–17

visualisation, 26, 28

voice, 136

Walcott, Derek, 98

Walker, Alice, 22, 90, 95

Warne, Sandra, 17

websites, 181–4

West, Dame Rebecca, 163, 166

Wharton, Edith, 54

Wilde, Oscar, 146

wish list, 102–3

Wittig, Monique, 95

Woolf, Virginia, 2, 46, 91

wound, 81

writing with the whole self, 10

Yeats, W. B., 4, 92, 130, 132, 167

Young, Dudley, 163, 168

Zeldin, Theodore, 141

Zen, 164