Poems (Meynell, 1921)/end matter
MRS MEYNELL'S POEMS
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IN its class, I know of no nobler or more beautiful sonnet than "Renouncement"; and I have so considered ever since the day I first heard it, when Rossetti (who knew it by heart), repeating it to me, added that it was one of the three finest sonnets ever written by women.—William Sharp.
The last verse of that perfectly heavenly "Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age," the whole of "San Lorenzo's Mother," and the end of the sonnet "To a Daisy" are the finest things I have yet seen or felt in modern verse.—John Ruskin.
The footfalls of her muse waken not sounds, but silences. We lift a feather from the marsh and say: "This way went a heron," ... It is poetry, the spiritual voice of which will become audible when the "high noises" of to-day have followed the feet that made them.—Francis Thompson.
With an exquisite singleness of genius she stands apart, and escapes the categories. The more you live with these pages the more will you be persuaded that they contain in unusual proportion the stuff of immortality.—J. L. Garvin.
What makes these poems singular amid all the poems of to-day is the fact that mind and spirit, intellect and imagination, mortal and immortal, have equal parts in them.—New Statesman.
It is the peculiar characteristic of Mrs. Meynell's poetry that it is itself creative. Its grace and beauty are the flower, not only of her life, but of her contemplation of life. Her very daydreams are lit with the light of day. Her feelings spring from her mind, her thoughts from her heart. There is room in them for a wit that is the weapon of the rarest tenderness. Mrs. Meynell's books have taken their chosen, quiet, unfaltering way—too lofty a way for ease or weariness or absent-mindedness to follow. She is sure.—Times.
Mrs. Meynell found herself long ago, and was found by all English-speaking lovers of poetry.—Manchester Guardian.
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MRS MEYNELL'S ESSAYS
Selected and arranged from her previously published books
| "THE RHYTHM OF LIFE" | "THE COLOUR OF LIFE" |
| "THE SPIRIT OF PLACE" | "CERES' RUNAWAY" |
| and "THE CHILDREN." | |
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ONE of the very rarests products of nature and grace—a woman of genius, one who, I am bound to confess, has falsified the assertion I made some time ago that no female writer of our time has attained to true "distinction"—Coventry Patmore in the Fortnightly Review.
The writing is limpid in its depths.—George Meredith.
Exercises in close thinking and expert expression almost unique in the literature of the day.—Athenæum.
The most stimulating Essays that have appeared since Mr. Stevenson delighted us with his Virginibus Puerisque. To appreciate them is a step forward in education.—The Guardian.
Hearts of Controversy
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Critical studies concerned strictly with the craft of which she is herself a master. I am soberly convinced that the prose of Alice Meynell is absolutely the most perfect produced in our language for at least the last twenty years.—Dixon Scott in The Manchester Guardian.
It is criticism of character; what she seeks and what she discover is the moral value of her subject.—New Statesman.
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