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Collected PoemsHope MirrleesEdited by Sandeep Parmar10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 20th Century, Women
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (320 pages) (Pub. Sep 2011) 9781847770752 £14.95 £13.45 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2011) 9781847779496 £14.95 £13.45 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris (1920), a journey through a day in post First World War Paris, was considered by Virginia Woolf ‘obscure, indecent, and brilliant’. Read today, the poem retains its exhilarating daring. Mirrlees’s experimentalism looks forward to The Waste Land; her writing is integral to the twentieth-century canon.
And yet, after Paris, Mirrlees published no more poetry for almost half a century, and her later poems appear to have little in common with the avant garde spirit of Paris. In this first edition to gather the full span of Mirrlees’s poetry, Sandeep Parmar explores the paradoxes of Mirrlees’s development as a poet and the complexities of her life. Sandeep Parmar was the first scholar to gain access to the Mirrlees Archive at Newnham College, Cambridge, and her edition includes many previously unpublished poems discovered there in draft form. The text is supported by detailed notes, including a commentary on Paris by Julia Briggs, and a selection of Mirrlees’s essays. The generous introduction provides the most accurate biographical account of Mirrlees’s life available. Mirrlees’s Collected Poems is an indispensible addition to a reading of modernism. Julia Briggs OBE was Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at De Montfort University. Among her many influential publications were a biography of E. Nesbit and her acclaimed Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. She died in 2007. Cover Painting Juan Gris (1887-1927), Breakfast, 1915. Oil on canvas. Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris / Peter Willi / The Bridgeman Art Library
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction ix A Note on the Text xlix Select Bibliography lii Hope Mirrlees, ca. 1920 liv PARIS: A POEM (1920) 1 MOODS AND TENSIONS (1976) Mothers 21 The Copper-Beech in St. Giles’ Churchyard 22 The Death of Cats and Roses 24 A Skull 25 Et in Arcadia Ego 26 The Land of Uz 28 The Glass Tánagra 30 The Legend of the Painted Room 30 ‘Une Maison Commode, Propre, et Belle...’ 32 The Rendez-Vous 32 Bertha frightens Miss Bates 33 In a Pagan Wood 36 Sickness and Recovery at the Cape of Good Hope in Spring 37 Winter Trees 40 A Portrait of the Second Eve, Painted in Pompeian Red 43 Amor Fati 45 Heaven is Not Fairyland 45 Gulls 46 A Meditation on Donatello’s Annunciation in the Church of Santa Croce, Florence 46 A Doggerel Epitaph for My Little Dog, Sally 51 Jesus Wept 52 PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS I’d like to get into your dreams 55 Crossed in Love 55 Love Lies Dying 56 To Mrs Patrick Campbell 57 To Jean, Who Loves Faerie-tales 58 The Moon-Flowers 59 Love 60 Carpe Diem 61 My Soul Was a Princess 61 The Moon-Maid 62 from My Mother’s Pedigree 63 The Faerie Changelings 64 ‘Some talk of Alexander and some sing Monty’s praise’ 65 A Friendship 66 The Shooting Stars 66 Ostia Antica 67 The Toad 67 The Invocation, by Anna de Noailles 68 Dusk, by Albert Samain 70 ESSAYS Some Aspects of the Art of Alexey Mikhailovich Remizov (1926) 75 Listening in to the Past (1926) 85 An Earthly Paradise (1927) 90 The Religion of Women (1927) 94 Gothic Dreams (1928) 98 Bedside Books (1928) 102 NOTES AND APPENDIX Abbreviations 112 Commentary on Paris, by Julia Briggs 113 Notes on the Poems and Essays 129 Appendix: ‘To Her. A twilight poem’, by Jane Ellen Harrison 138 Index of Titles and First Lines 141
'Sandeep Parmarâs edition of Hope Mirrleesâ poetry is a testimony to modern scholarship and provides a missing piece of the British modernist jigsaw.'
Matthew Mitton, Women: A Cultural Review
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