Charlotte Mew — a remark

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“One has not only the cry but the gesture and the accent, calling up witnesses to the real thing.”

On the need for authentic voice, gesture and character in writing · Letter to Sydney Cockerell, 1918

About Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew

15 November 1869–24 March 1928

Charlotte Mew, born Charlotte Mary Mew on 15 November 1869 and dead on 24 March 1928, occupies a singular and often haunting position in English poetry. She was admired in her own lifetime by writers as different as Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried Sassoon, and Ezra Pound, yet her name later…

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