Charlotte Mary Mew
Who is Charlotte Mary Mew
Charlotte Mary Mew (15 November 1869 – 24 March 1928) was an English poet whose work spans the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism.
Early life and education
Mew was born in Bloomsbury, London, daughter of the architect Frederick Mew (1833-1898), who designed Hampstead Town Hall, and Anna Maria Marden (1837-1923), daughter of architect H. E. Kendall, for whom Frederick Mew had previously worked as an assistant. Frederick was the son of an innkeeper on the Isle of Wight. The marriage produced seven children. Charlotte, nicknamed Lotti by her family, attended Gower Street School, where she was greatly influenced by the school's headmistress, Lucy Harrison, and attended lectures at University College London. The family moved to 9, Gordon Street in 1888, living in ...
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Charlotte Mary Mew Poems
- Not For That City
Not for that city of the level sun,
Its golden streets and glittering gates ablazeâ??
The shadeless, sleepless city of white days,
White nights, or nights and days that are as oneâ??
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- Pêcheresse
Down the long quay the slow boats glide,
While here and there a house looms white
Against the gloom of the waterside,
And some high window throws a light
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- In The Fields
Lord when I look at lovely things which pass,
Under old trees the shadow of young leaves
Dancing to please the wind along the grass,
Or the gold stillness of the August sun on the August sheaves;
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- Song
Love love to-day, my dear
Love is not always here
Wise maids know how soon grows sere
The greenest leaf of Spring.
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- The Trees Are Down
and he cried with a loud voice: Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees - Revelation
They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of
the gardens.
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- Ambs1200: right now it's between mary oliver and charlotte mew but i have also been rereading a lot of my favourite keats and a lot of emily bronte recently
- Paulineridley: charlotte mary mew by dorothy hawksley, watercolour, 1926 national portrait gallery
- Faust89823700: charlotte mary mew - not for that city
not for that city of the level sun,
its golden streets and glittering gates ablaze—
the shadeless, sleepless city of white days,
white nights, or nights and days that are as one—
we weary, when all is said , all
- Neglectedbooks: chuffed to see the names of so many unfairly neglected writers included: barry pain; ella d'arcy; george egerton; mary mann; charlotte mew; j. e. malloch. a short story anthology offers a perfect way to demonstrate the depth and variety of good writing in any age. bravo!
- Aniswissarts: dorothy webster hawksley (british, 1884 - 1970) - portrait of poet charlotte mary mew, 1925
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