Later Poems

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 1893, this poetry collection reflects 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 poet of her day due to the remarkable quantity and quality of her poetry works. Well-written and intriguing, elegiac and melancholic, this volume of poetry will not leave you indifferent.