The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Her literary works are unique. She asserted the Godlike creative power of poetic language and used it both to explore religious mysteries and the ways in which humans comprehend those mysteries, and to transform the role of the poet.

Published in 1889, “The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays” is a volume of essays, depicted Meynell’s sensory experiences of life. Together with other poetry works and prose essays, this one is remarkable for fineness of culture and peculiar restraint of style.

Meynell was widely regarded as one of the most important essayists of her day due to the remarkable quantity and quality of her essays. Well-written and intriguing, elegiac and melancholic, this volume of essays will not undoubtedly leave you indifferent.