The Essential Poems

There has been increased and justified interest in the poetry of Charlotte Mew as she is seen increasingly as the leading English female poet of her generation. Her tragic personal life and her ambivalent sexuality are reflected in poems which hark back to the past, but at times, in their experiments in form and stream of consciousness, offer a clear and intriguing fore-taste of modernism. What is undeniable is the quality and range of the poems published here. This good value edition hopes to introduce more readers to a poet who deserves to be more widely read and admired.