Hope Mirrlees

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Hope Mirrlees


Born
in The United Kingdom
December 13, 1887

Died
January 01, 1978

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry


Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists (1919), The Counterplot (1924) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926); three volumes of poetry, including Paris: A Poem (1919), described by the critic Julia Briggs as "modernism's lost masterpiece"; and A Fly in Amber (1962), a biography of the British antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.
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Average rating: 3.85 · 10,009 ratings · 1,447 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors
Lud-in-the-Mist
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3.85 avg rating — 9,568 ratings — published 1926 — 25 editions
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Paris
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Collected Poems
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Madeleine: One of Love's Ja...
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The Counterplot
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The Book of the Bear: being...
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Moods & Tensions: Poems
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A Fly in Amber: Being An Ex...
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Três Poetas Modernissimas
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“Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
tags: drugs, endymion-leer, opiates, poppies, reason, temporary-relief
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“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
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“Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
tags: pride, resentment
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