Alice Meynell

 

 

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                         The Modern Poet.


5   I COME from nothing; but from where
Come the undying thoughts I bear?
Down through long links of death and birth,
From the past poets of the earth –
My immortality is there.
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I am like the blossom of an hour;
But long, long vanished sun and shower
Awoke my breath i' the young world's air.
I track the past back everywhere –
Through seed and flower, and seed and flower.
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Or I am like a stream that flows
Full of the cold springs that arose
In morning lands, in distant hills;
And down the plain my channel fills
With melting of forgotten snows.
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Voices I have not heard possessed
My own fresh songs; my thoughts are blessed
With relics of the far unknown.
And mixed with memories not my own
The sweet streams throng into my breast.
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Before this life began to be,
The happy songs that wake in me
Woke long ago and far apart.
Heavily on this little heart
Presses this immortality.

 

 

 

 

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Merry England. An Illustrated Magazine.
Bd. 5, 1885, Nr. 28, August, S. 273.


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Atkinson, Damian (Hrsg.): The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell: Poet and Essayist. Newcastle upon Tyne 2013.

Brandmeyer, Rudolf: Poetologische Lyrik. In: Handbuch Lyrik. Theorie, Analyse, Geschichte. Hrsg. von Dieter Lamping. 2. Aufl. Stuttgart 2016, S. 164-168.

Gray, F. Elizabeth (Hrsg): Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle. 'Making a Name for Herself'. London 2012.

Gymnich, Marion / Müller-Zettelmann, Eva: Metalyrik: Gattungsspezifische Besonderheiten, Formenspektrum und zentrale Funktionen. In: Metaisierung in Literatur und anderen Medien. Theoretische Grundlagen – Historische Perspektiven – Metagattungen – Funktionen. Hrsg. von Janine Hauthal u.a. Berlin u.a. 2007 (= spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature, 12), S. 65-91.

Hughes, Linda K. (Hrsg.): The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry. Cambridge 2019.

Martin, Meredith: Alice Meynell, Again and Again. In: The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry. Hrsg. von Matthew Bevis. Oxford u.a. 2013, S.  579-590.

Martus, Steffen u.a. (Hrsg.): Lyrik im 19. Jahrhundert. Gattungspoetik als Reflexionsmedium der Kultur. Bern u.a. 2005 (= Publikationen zur Zeitschrift für Germanistik, 11).

Richardson, LeeAnne: Turn of the Century Women's Poetry: Skirting the Problems of Periodization In: Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 13.3 (2017), S. 81-101.
URL: http://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue133/richardson.htm

Vadillo, Ana P.: Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism. Passengers of Modernity. Basingstoke 2005.

Wise, Julie: Alice Meynell's Doubled Voices. In: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 61.3 (2018), S. 291-309.

 

 

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