Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Great Regulars: The newspaper report of her [Charlotte Mew's] death

referred to her as "Miss Charlotte Mary New, a writer of verse". The 20th century has since made up for its neglect, and she is now highly regarded, thanks particularly to the scholar and poet Val Warner, who set the reappraisal in motion with her seminal edition of Mew's Collected Poems and Prose, published by Carcanet in 1981.

The Farmer's Bride

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Poem of the week: The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew

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