Carcanet Press - Collected Poems and Selected Prose

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I remember rooms that have had their part
In the steady slowing down of the heart:
The room in Paris, the room at Geneva,
The little damp room with the seaweed smell,
And that ceaseless maddening sound of the tide -
Rooms where for good or ill - things died.

(from 'Rooms')

Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was admired by writers as diverse as Siegfried Sassoon, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf and Dylan Thomas; Thomas Hardy called her 'the best living woman poet'. For decades after her suicide she was known only by a few anthology pieces. Now she is again widely recognised as a true original. Her writing has an urgency and passion that compel her to re-invent forms and prosodies to explore her complex pains and loves.

This collection reveals the full range of her work. She can be appreciated as a bravely experimental modernist, a poet of formal precision whose themes are at the heart of feminist concerns.

Val Warner's introduction provides background to Mew's life, shared with her painter sister, caring for their mother, concealing the mental illness of her brother and her other sister and her own ambivalent sexual nature. From such constraints she created powerful poetry.

Table of Contents

Contents

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 F�te

Beside the Bed

In Nunhead Cemetery

The Pedlar

P�cheresse

The Changeling

Ken

A quoi bon dire

The Quiet House

On the Asylum Road

Jour des Morts (Cimeti�re 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 sacr�-Coeur (Montmartre)

Song

Saturday Market

Arracombe Wood

Sea Love

The Road to K�rity

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 pass� (Quai Voltaire)

Do Dreams Lie Deeper?

Domus Caedet Arborem

Fin de f�te

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

P�ri en mer (Camaret)

Selected Prose

Stories

Elinor

The Minnow Fishers

The Wheat

Essay

An Old Servant

Play

The China Bowl

Charlotte Mew

�� Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869, the third child of an architect, and was educated at a girl's school in London. Her first published work was a short story in The Yellow Book in 1894. In May 1912 Mew was introduced to May Sinclair, a leading novelist who ... read more

Val Warner

VAL WARNER read Modern History at Oxford and has worked as a teacher, freelance copy-editor and freelance writer. She was Creative Writing Fellow at the University College of Swansea and Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee. She has received a Gregory Award. Her Carcanet publications include the pamphlet These ... read more

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Collected Poems and Selected Prose (2e) Charlotte Mew Edited by Val Warner Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, Women Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Edition: 2nd Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Description Excerpt Author Contents I remember rooms that have had their part In the steady slowing down of the heart: The room in Paris, the room at Geneva, The little damp room with the seaweed smell, And that ceaseless maddening sound of the tide - Rooms where for good or ill - things died. (from 'Rooms') Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was admired by writers as diverse as Siegfried Sassoon, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf and Dylan Thomas; Thomas Hardy called her 'the best living woman poet'. For decades after her suicide she was known only by a few anthology pieces. Now she is again widely recognised as a true original. Her writing has an urgency and passion that compel her to re-invent forms and prosodies to explore her complex pains and loves. This collection reveals the full range of her work. She can be appreciated as a bravely experimental modernist, a poet of formal precision whose themes are at the heart of feminist concerns. Val Warner's introduction provides background to Mew's life, shared with her painter sister, caring for their mother, concealing the mental illness of her brother and her other sister and her own ambivalent sexual nature. From such constraints she created powerful poetry. Table of Contents Contents 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 F�te Beside the Bed In Nunhead Cemetery The Pedlar P�cheresse The Changeling Ken A quoi bon dire The Quiet House On the Asylum Road Jour des Morts (Cimeti�re 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 sacr�-Coeur (Montmartre) Song Saturday Market Arracombe Wood Sea Love The Road to K�rity 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 pass� (Quai Voltaire) Do Dreams Lie Deeper? Domus Caedet Arborem Fin de f�te 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 P�ri en mer (Camaret) Selected Prose Stories Elinor The Minnow Fishers The Wheat Essay An Old Servant Play The China Bowl Charlotte Mew �� Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869, the third child of an architect, and was educated at a girl's school in London. Her first published work was a short story in The Yellow Book in 1894. In May 1912 Mew was introduced to May Sinclair, a leading novelist who ... read more Val Warner VAL WARNER read Modern History at Oxford and has worked as a teacher, freelance copy-editor and freelance writer. She was Creative Writing Fellow at the University College of Swansea and Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee. She has received a Gregory Award. Her Carcanet publications include the pamphlet These ... read more You might also be interested in: Selected Poems Charlotte Mew, Edited by Eavan Boland	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog Coco Island: Christine Roseeta Walker read more that which appears: Thomas A Clark read more Come Here to This Gate: Rory Waterman read more Near-Life Experience: Rowland Bagnall read more The Silence: Gillian Clarke read more Baby Schema: Isabel Galleymore read more
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Collected Poems and Selected Prose (2e)

Charlotte Mew

Edited by Val Warner