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.
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 and play

• 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.

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: 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 childrens 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

• 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.

After over a decade, the following three sites not accessed:

• the Beat. After the Californian Beat generation.
• Dispatch Litareview. (Formerly) down-loadable magazine.
• Interlude. (Was) connected to the London independent arts scene.

For many years, this Dorothy Cowlin literary site was hosted by Paradox Inc.org, an incorporated non-profit organisation with the mission of a sustainable international poetry community.

Copyright © Estate of Dorothy Cowlin.

Copyright © Richard Lung.

By the same web manager: Democracy Science.

The web manager could not access this site after March 2007.
Re-hosted and re-accessed April 2018. I have taken the opportunity to cut a few superseded drafts of my own verse, as well as editing mishaps. Otherwise, I left the site as a "time-capsule" and, so, a happy memory of when I still had Dorothys companionship.

This study of Dorothys writings, more or less, became the first part of my e-book, Dates And Dorothy. (The second part was my second book of verse, including an account, in narrative verse of our friendship.)

Not to be found, on this site, is a collection of Dorothys letters to me:
Echoes Of A Friend: Letters from Dorothy Cowlin. Comment by Richard Lung.

The reviews, on this site, of other novelists formed the basis of my book: Literary Liberties.

These and all my other books may be found, in epub format, from my Smashwords page.

Nearly all those works are also published by Amazon, in their mobi format for Kindle e-readers.