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Collected Poems and Selected Prose (2e)Charlotte MewEdited by Val Warner
Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Edition: 2nd Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as:
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 Féte Beside the Bed In Nunhead Cemetery The Pedlar Pécheresse The Changeling Ken A quoi bon dire The Quiet House On the Asylum Road Jour des Morts (Cimetiére 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 sacré-Coeur (Montmartre) Song Saturday Market Arracombe Wood Sea Love The Road to Kérity 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 passé (Quai Voltaire) Do Dreams Lie Deeper? Domus Caedet Arborem Fin de féte 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 Péri en mer (Camaret) Selected Prose Stories Elinor The Minnow Fishers The Wheat Essay An Old Servant Play The China Bowl
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