Author : Julia Copus
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571313532
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (135 download)
Book Synopsis This Rare Spirit by : Julia Copus
Download or read book This Rare Spirit written by Julia Copus and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive biography of inventive, since neglected poet in the 150th anniversary of her birth The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This is the first comprehensive biography, from cradle to grave, and it is written by Faber poet Julia Copus, who recently unveiled a blue plaque on Mew's childhood house in Doughty Street. Mew was a curious mix of New Woman and stalwart Victorian. Her poems speak to us strongly today, in these strangely mixed times of exposure and seclusion: they reveal the private agony of an isolated being who was forced to keep secret the tragedies of her personal life while being at the same time propelled by her work into the public arena. Her poetry transfigures that very private suffering into art that has a universal resonance.