Essays
1914
A 1914 gathering of Alice Meynell's essays, the form she was best known for before her poetry was rediscovered. Rain, rushes, a tow path and the grass growing out of Roman walls are the starting points, and the writing turns each into a short argument about attention.
- Ceres’ Runaway
- Wells
- Rain
- The Tow Path
- The Tethered Constellations
- Rushes and Reeds
- A Northern Fancy
- Pathos
- Anima Pellegrina!
- A Point of Biography
- The Honours of Mortality
- Composure
- The Little Language
- A Counterchange
- Harlequin Mercutio
- Laughter
- The Rhythm of Life
- Domus Angusta
- Innocence and Experience
- The Hours of Sleep
- Solitude
- Decivilized
- The Spirit of Place
- Popular Burlesque
- Have Patience, Little Saint
- At Monastery Gates
- The Sea Wall
- Tithonus
- Symmetry and Incident
- The Plaid
- The Flower
- Unstable Equilibrium
- Victorian Caricature
- The Point of Honour
- The Colour of Life
- The Horizon
- In July
- Cloud
- Shadows
- The Seventeenth Century
- Mrs. Dingley
- Prue
- Mrs. Johnson
- Madame Roland
- Fellow Travellers with a Bird
- The Child of Tumult
- The Child of Subsiding Tumult
- The Unready
- That Pretty Person
- Under the Early Stars
- The Illusion of Historic Time