Charlotte Mew

It is hard to understand why the English poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) isn’t better known. She deserves more readers. Virginia Woolf recognized that she was „very good and interesting and unlike anyone else,“ and Thomas Hardy, whom she revered as the „King of Wessex,“ considered her „far and away the best living woman poet, who will be read when others are forgotten.“ Mew’s poetry has a strange, agitated beauty./ Edward Hirsch´s Poet´s Choice, The Washington Post*) 21.8.03