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Charlotte Mew


Born
in Bloomsbury, London, UK, The United Kingdom
November 15, 1869

Died
March 24, 1928

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Poetry


Charlotte Mary Mew was a modernist British poet. Mew's father, architect Frederick Mew, died in 1898 without making adequate provision for his family; two of her siblings suffered from mental illness, and were committed to institutions, and three others died in early childhood leaving Charlotte, her mother and her sister, Anne. Charlotte and Anne made a pact never to marry for fear of passing on insanity to their children.

In 1894, Mew succeeded in getting a short story into The Yellow Book, but wrote very little poetry at this time. Her first collection of poetry, The Farmer's Bride, was published in 1916. Mew gained the patronage of several literary figures, notably Thomas Hardy, who called her the best woman poet of her day, Virginia Wool ...more

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Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew
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Selected Poetry And Prose
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The Farmer's Bride (1921)
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A White Night
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Algunas formas de amor
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The Poetry Of Charlotte Mew...
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The Complete Poems
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“There is something horrible about a flower;
This, broken in my hand, is one of those
He threw it in just now; it will not live another hour;
There are thousands more; you do not miss a rose.”
― Charlotte Mew
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“Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,
Though I am damned for it we two will lie
And burn, here where the starlings fly”
― Charlotte Mew
tags: burn, fire, love
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“But still it was a lovely thing
Through the grey months to wait for Spring”
― Charlotte Mew, Collected Poems and Selected Prose
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