Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems
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Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was an English poet and novelist. Born to a wealthy English father and an American mother in Bournemouth, Hampshire, Hall was left a sizeable fortune following her parents’ separation in 1882. Raised in a troubled environment, Hall struggled to gain financial independence from her mother and stepfather. As she took control of her inheritance, Hall began dressing in men’s clothing and identifying herself as a “congenital invert.” In 1907, she began a relationship with amateur singer Mabel Batten, who encouraged Hall to pursue a career in literature. By 1917, she had fallen in love with sculptor Una Troubridge, a cousin of Batten’s. After several poetry collections, Hall’s second novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was published, becoming a bestseller shortly thereafter. Adam’s Breed (1926), a novel about an Italian waiter who abandons modern life, earned Hall the Prix Femina and the James Tait Black Prize, two of the most prestigious awards in world literature. In 1928, Hall’s sixth novel, The Well of Loneliness, was published to widespread controversy for its depiction of lesbian romance. While an obscenity trial in the United Kingdom led to an order that all copies of the novel be destroyed, a lengthy trial in the United States eventually allowed the book’s publication. Recognized as a pioneering figure in lesbian literature, Hall lived in London with Una Troubridge until her death at the age of sixty-three.
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Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems - Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall
Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems
EAN 8596547220572
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
RUSTIC COURTING
I WALKING OUT
II THE SHADOW OF RAGGEDSTONE
III THE LONG GREEN LANES OF ENGLAND
IV THE HILLS
V EASTNOR CHURCHYARD
VI THE MALVERN HILLS
VII THE FIRST CUCKOO
VIII DUSK IN THE LANE
IX THE MEETING-PLACE
X BY THE AVON
XI JEALOUSY
XII IN THE CITY
XIII I BE THINKIN’
XIV SUNDAY EVENING
XV THE LEDBURY TRAIN
XVI JILTED
XVII CASEND HILL
XVIII THE LEDBURY ROAD
XIX THE CALL TO LONDON
XX BREDON
XXI OUR DEAD
XXII PRIMROSE FLOWERS
XXIII TRAMPING
XXIV THE BLIND PLOUGHMAN
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
WHEN THE WIND COMES UP THE HILL
PEACE (Sidmouth)
LIME-TREES
A LITTLE SONG
THE SONG OF THE WATCHER
BY THE RIVER
THE ROAD TO COLLA
PRAYER
DAWN
TO THE EARTH
DAWN AMONG THE OLIVE GROVES
SILENT PLACES
ONE EVENING NEAR NICE
THOUGHTS AT AJACCIO
THREE CHILD-SONGS
AUTUMN IN SUSSEX
SI PARVA LICET COMPONERE MAGNIS
TO ITALY
SUNDAY IN LIGURIA
GEORGETOWN, U.S.A.
ON THE POTOMAC RIVER, U.S.A.
THE LOST WORD
COMPARISONS
A FRAGMENT
APPRECIATIONS
PRESS NOTICES Poems of the Past and Present.
INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
WITH as much grace as if a monoplanist should attempt to write a preface to a book on flying for an albatross, so may a writer of mere prose attempt to pen an introduction to a book of poetry.
The bird and man both use the air, but with a difference. So do the poet and the man of prose use pen and ink.
Familiarity with tools, used in two branches of one art (or trade), is apt to prove a snare.
Music and poetry, the most ethereal of the arts upon the face of them, are in a way more mathematical than prose, for both have formulæ. Hence, their appeal goes quicker to men’s minds, and oversteps countries and languages to some degree, and makes it difficult to write about them. Of late, young poets, those who have bulked the largest in the public eye, those that the world has hailed as modern, have often been obscure. What is modernity? To be