This Rare Spirit - A Life of Charlotte Mew (Copus Julia)(Paperback / softback)

The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered ''far and away the best living woman poet'' in her day.Andrew Motion''s Spectator Book of the Year.‘One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that tired view of the poet as mouse that barely roared in favour of a true sense of a spikily modern woman, bound by various obligations but resilient, headstrong, and poetically inventive . . . Copus’s diligent, scholarly, sensitive work should help Mew’s pipe play on for years to come.’ Declan Ryan, Los Angeles Review of Books''[A] supreme biography . . . It is hard to do justice to the breadth of research Copus has done here, or the compassionate, detailed conjuring of Mew and her milieu . . . An essential book, a classic work of literary biography.'' Seán Hewitt, Irish Times''[K]eenly intelligent, fascinating and nuanced biography . . . Save Charlotte Mew! And read this book.'' Joanna Kavenna, Literary Review''An exquisitely told account of the life of a half-forgotten London poet whose work was admired by Hardy, Sassoon and Virginia Woolf. Julia Copus does her justice at last.'' Claire Tomalin''This Rare Spirit is a classic – the biography of Mew we have all been waiting for.'' Fiona BensonThe British poet Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sasson, Walter de la Mare and Marianne Moore. Sh
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