The Flower of the Mind

By Meynell, Alice

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Title:	The Flower of the Mind
Author:	Meynell, Alice
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Project Gutenberg Consortia Center
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Excerpt
Partial collections of English poems, decided by a common subject or bounded by narrow dates and periods of literary history, are made at very short intervals, and the makers are safe from the reproach of proposing their own personal taste as a guide for the reading of others. But a general Anthology gathered from the whole of English literature?the whole from Chaucer to Wordsworth?by a gatherer intent upon nothing except the quality of poetry, is a more rare enterprise. It is hardly to be made without tempting the suspicion?nay, hardly without seeming to hazard the confession?of some measure of self-confidence. Nor can even the desire to enter upon that labor be a frequent one?the desire of the heart of one for whom poetry is veritably ?the complementary life? to set up a pale for inclusion and exclusion, to add honors, to multiply homage, to cherish, to restore, to protest, to proclaim, to depose; and to gain the consent of a multitude of readers to all those acts. Many years, then?some part of a century?may easily pass between the publication of one general anthology and the making of another.

Table of Contents
Contents: The Shepherdess I am the Way Via, et Veritas, et Vita Why wilt Thou Chide? The Lady Poverty The Fold Cradle-song at Twilight The Roaring Frost Parentage The Modern Mother West Wind in Winter November Blue Chimes Unto us a Son is given A Dead Harvest The Two Poets A Poet's Wife Veneration of Images At Night 34 THE SHEPHERDESS