In her short poems particularly, "She could," as Ifor Evans noted, "more perhaps than any poet of the century, concentrate her meaning with epigrammatic precision. Yet her work was once widely admired, especially by other writers: *ssuredly," Laurence Binyon wrote in 1918, "her place is secure among the lyric poets of England."1 The fact that this has not been the case is puzzling, for although both in style and sentiment there are poems of hers that we might naturally find less congenial than the circle for whom they were originally written, there are also poems that speak with a razor-edged clarity of matters both universal and touchingly personal. Â-Edward Thomas Vanessa Furse Jackson Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi MARY COLERIDGE is almost completely unknown as a poet today, her work rarely anthologised or critically considered, except by a few feminist publications, in spite of a reawakening of interest in much late nineteenth-century poetry. Mar圜oleridge,1883 Breaking the Quiet Surface: The Shorter Poems of Mary Coleridge She fights a losing battle without being hardened or alarmed, finding unexpected consolations and always looking at things in her own way, so that even the defeats enhance the value, because they add to the profundity, of life. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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