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Alice Meynell

Literary Birthday – 22 September – Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell was born on 22 September 1847 and died on 27 November 1922.

Alice Meynell Quotes

  1. Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
  2. There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.
  3. If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.
  4. Dialect is the elf rather than the genius of place.
  5. If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
  6. The sense of humour has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
  7. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.

Alice Meynell was an English poet, writer, editor, essayist, critic, and suffragist. Encouraged by Alfred Tennyson and Coventry Patmore, she published her first collection of poetry, Preludes, in 1875. Meynell married Wilfrid Meynell in 1877, and the couple worked together as editors and publishers of several magazines, including The Pen, the Weekly Register, and Merry England. She published Poems in 1893 and Later Poems in 1902. Her final collection, Last Poems, was published after her death in 1923. Her poetry is known for its simple language, religious faith, and gentle sense of sadness. She often wrote about nature, love, death, and the passing of time. Meynell was a respected poet in her lifetime and was considered as a possible Poet Laureate after the deaths of Tennyson and Alfred Austin. In 1914, she was elected to the Academic Committee of the Royal Society of Literature. A selection of her poetry is available in The Poems of Alice Meynell, while her essays are collected in The Rhythm Of Life.

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by Amanda Patterson
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Posted on: 22nd September 2014
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