Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Charlotte Mew
Published on 28. March 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-0-415-96757-0 (ISBN)
Description
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) is increasingly left out od collectoins of modernist poets, and yet her feminist themes might bring new dimensions to the history of modernism. This volume collects all her known poetry and also includes examples in other genres she tried.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-96757-0 (9780415967570)
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Persons
Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869, the third child of an architect, and was educated at a girls' school in London. Her first published work was a short story in The Yellow Book in 1894. Val Warner has worked as a teacher, editor and writer. She was Creative Writing Fellow at the University College of Swansea and Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee, and has received a Gregory Award. Her publications include the pamphlet These Yellow Photos (1971), Under the Penthouse (1973) Before Lunch (1986) and The Centenary Corbiere (translations of Tristan Corbiere, 1975).
Content
Introduction, A Note on the Text, Editions and Further Reading, Poems: The Farmer's Bride (1916), The Farmer's Bride, Fame, The Narrow Door, The Fete, Beside the Bed, In Nunhead Cemetery, The Pedlar, Pecheresse, The Changeling, Ken, A quoi bon dire, The Quiet House, On the Asylum Road, Jour des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse), The Forest Road, Madeleine in Church, Exspecto Resurrectionem, Additional poems included in The Farmer's Bride, 1921 edition: , On the Road to the Sea, The Sunlit House, The Shade-Catchers, Le Sacre-Coeur (Montmartre), Song, Saturday Market, Arracombe Wood, Sea Love, The Road to Kerity, I Have Been Through the Gates, The Cenotaph, The Rambling Sailor (1929), In the Fields, From a Window, Not for that City, Rooms, Monsieur qui passe (Quai Voltaire), Do Dreams Lie Deeper?, Domus Caedet Arborem, Fin de fete, Again, Epitaph, Friend, Wherefore - ?, I so liked Spring, Here lies a Prisoner, May, 1915, June, 1915, Ne me tangito, Old Shepherd's Prayer, My Heart is Lame, On Youth Struck Down, The Trees are Down, Smile, Death, The Rambling Sailor, The Call, Absence, To a Child in Death, , Moorland Night. , Early poems printed at the end of The Rambling Sailor, At the Convent Gate, Requiescat, The Little Portress (St Gilda de Rhuys), Afternoon Tea, She was a Sinner, Song, Poems collected or published posthumously: An Ending, A Question, Left Behind, A Farewell, 'There shall be no night there (In the Fields), V.R.I. , To a Little Child in Death, Perienmer (Camaret) Selected Prose: Stories Elinor, The Minnow Fishers, The Wheat Essay: An Old Servant Play: The China Bowl.