Michael Field, the poet : published and manuscript materials
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Michael Field, the poet : published and manuscript materials
（Broadview editions）
Broadview Press, c2009
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Chronology: p. 15-16
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-379, 380-384) and index
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Description
"Michael Field" was the literary pseudonym of two women, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913). The women were poets, playwrights, diarist, and lovers who lived and wrote together during the final decades of the nineteenth century up to World War I. Their arresting poetry has recently gained them a place in the canon, and their extensive engagement with other writers puts them at the centre of fin de siecle literary culture.
This Broadview Edition offers selections from all published books of poetry by Michael Field, and a substantial section of transcriptions from largely unpublished manuscript letters and diaries that gives insight into the extraordinary life and work of the authors. A critical introduction, bibliography, and selection of contemporary reviews are also included.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Michael Field: A Brief Chronology Michael Field's Circle: A Key to Names Introduction Poetry 1. From Long Ago (1889) [Epigraph] Preface I. "They plaited garlands in their time" II. "Come, dark-eyed Sleep, thou child of Night" III. "Oh, not the honey, nor the bee!" VI. "Erinna, thou art ever fair" XI. "Dreamless from happy sleep I woke" XIV. "Atthis, my darling, thou did'st stray" XVI. "Delicate Graces, come" XVII. "The moon rose full: the women stood" XX. "I sang to women gathered round" XXI. "Ye rosy-armed, pure Graces, come" XXV. "Ah for Adonis! So" XXVIII. "Love, fatal creature, bitter-sweet" XXX. "Thine elder that I am, thou must not cling" XXXIII. "Maids, not to you my mind doth change" XXXIV. "'Sing to us, Sappho!' cried the crowd" XXXV. "Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place" XXXVI. "Yea, gold is son of Zeus: no rust" XLIV. "Nought to me! So I choose to say" LII. "Climbing the hill a coil of snakes" LVII. "My shell is mute
- Apollo doth refuse" LXI. "There is laughter soft and free" LXIII. "Grow vocal to me, O my shell divine!" LXV. "Prometheus fashioned man" LXVIII. "Thou burnest us
- thy torches' flashing spires" "O free me, for I take the leap" 2. From Sight and Song (1892) [Epigraph] Preface L'Indifferent,Watteau Venus, Mercury and Cupid, CorreggioLa Gioconda, Leonardo da Vinci The Faun's Punishment, Correggio The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli Spring, Sandro Botticelli A Portrait, Bartolommeo Veneto Saint Sebastian, Correggio Venus and Mars, Sandro Botticelli A Fete Champetre, Antoine Watteau Saint Sebastian, Antonello da Messina A Pen-Drawing of Leda, Sodoma Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne, Tintoretto The Sleeping Venus, Giorgione L'Embarquement Pour Cythere, Antoine Watteau 3. From Underneath the Bough (1893) [Epigraph] Invocation The First Book of Songs "Mortal, if thou art beloved" "Death, men say, is like a sea" "Ah, Eros doth not always smite" "Men, looking on the Wandering Jew" "Love's wings are wondrous swift" An Apple-Flower "Through hazels and apples" "Say, if a gallant rose my bower doth scale" "Ah me, if I grew sweet to man" The Second Book of Songs "Others may drag at memory's fetter" "Little Lettuce is dead, they say" A Death-Bed "A curling thread" "She mingled me rue and roses" Unconsciousness "When the cherries are on the bough" "Thanatos, thy praise I sing" The Third Book of Songs "Already to mine eyelids' shore" Cowslip-Gathering "A girl" "Methinks my love to thee doth grow" "If I but dream that thou art gone" Love's Sour Leisure "I sing thee with the stock-dove's throat" "A gray mob-cap and a girl's" "It was deep April, and the morn" An Invitation The Fourth Book of Songs "Across a gaudy room" "As two fair vessels side by side" "The lady I have vowed to paint" "The iris was yellow, the moon was pale" "I lay sick in a foreign land" "The roses wither and die" "There are tears in my heart" "On, o Bacchus, on we go" "I would not be a fugitive" "Sunshine is calling" 4. From Wild Honey from Various Thyme (1908) [Epigraph] Pan Asleep Penetration Onycha Violets Sweet-Basil "The woods are still that were so gay at primrosespringing" Embalmment What Is Thy Beloved More Than Another Beloved? Love: A Lover A Violet Bank Reality Enchantment From Baudelaire Fifty Quatrains Reveille The Poet A Forest Night "I love you with my life-'tis so I love you" A Vision IV:The Mummy Invokes His Soul October Ebbtide at Sundown Sirenusa Avowal Renewal Life Plastic Absence Parting Old Ivories Balsam Constancy A Palimpsest Absence Whym Chow A Minute-Hand Good Friday 5. From Poems of Adoration (1912) Of Silence Real Presence Another Leadeth Thee Relics A Dance Of Death Imple Superna Gratia After Anointing Viaticum Transit 6. From Mystic Trees (1913) The Captain Jewel The Winding-Sheet The Five Sacred Wounds White Passion-Flower Praises Before Requiem The Rosary of Blood Dread St. Michael She is Singing to Thee, Domine! Caput Tuum ut Carmelus 7. From Whym Chow: Flame of Love (1914) [Epigraph] IV. "O Dionysus, at thy feet" V.Trinity VI. "What is the other name of Love?" VIII. Out of the East IX. "My loved One is away from me" XXII. "Sleeping together: Sleep" XXIX. "O Chow, the Peace of her I love above" 8. From Dedicated: an Early Work by Michael Field (1914) Dionysus Zagreus The Genethliacs of Wine De Profundis Sylvanus Cupressifer Caenis Caeneus Eros The Mask Fellowship 9. From The Wattlefold: Unpublished Poems by Michael Field (1930) Blessed Hands My Birthday Poets How Letters Became Prayers How Prayers Became Letters Again Pomegranates Lovers "Lo, my loved is dying" Respite They Shall Look on Him "I am thy charge, thy care!" A Cradle Song Fading "What shall I do for Thee to-day?" Life-Writing 1. Diaries From Works and Days: The Diaries of Michael Field, 1888-1914 2. Letters Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper to Each Other and to Family (1885) From John Ruskin (1877) To and From Robert Browning (1884-85) To John Miller Gray (1893) To and From Bernard Berenson (1891-?1912) To Mary Costelloe, later Mary Berenson (1892-?1912) To and From Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon (1895-1907) To and From John Gray (1907-?1912) Other Interlocutors (1884-90) Reviews Review of Long Ago by John M. Gray, The Academy (8 June 1889). Review of Sight and Song by W.B.Yeats, The Bookman (July 1892). "Women and Men:Women Laureates," by T.W.H. [T.W. Higginson], Harper's Bazar (17 June 1893). Review of Underneath the Bough [Anon], The Athenaeum (9 September 1893). Review of Wild Honey [Anon], The Academy (8 February 1908). Appendix: Index to Names of Major Artists and Literary Figures Appearing in the Life-Writing Section Bibliography of Bradley and Cooper's Major Published Volumes Select Bibliography of Critical and Related Work
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