was never sure of herself as a poet, and wrote under the melancholy pseudonym "Anodos", meaning "on no road". But she was, of course, firmly on the road to what we would now understand as a modern feminist poetics. The breakthrough to a self-image that is neither angel nor monster remains for most women, writers or not, a difficult work-in-progress. The Other Side of a Mirror
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: The Other Side of a Mirror by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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