The collected poems of Katherine Mansfield / edited by Gerri Kimber & Claire Davison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923, author.

Contributor:

Kimber, Gerri, editor.

Davison, Claire, editor.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--20th century.

New Zealand poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

205 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"This edition is made up of 217 poems, ordered chronologically, so that the reader can follow Mansfield's development as a poet and her experiments with different forms, as well as tracing the themes of love and death, the natural world and the seasons, childhood and friendship, music and song that preoccupied her throughout her writing life. The comprehensive annotations provide illuminating biographical information as well as explaining the rich contexts of the European poetic tradition, including fin-de-siècle decadence within which Mansfield's artistry is steeped." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Poems

1903

Collection: Little Fronds

Evening 9

The Sea 9

The Three Monarchs 10

Music 10

A Fragment 11

Love's Entreaty 11

Night 12

To M 12

Battle Hymn 13

The Chief's Bombay Tiger 13

To Ping Pong by J. E. C. 14

To a little Child 14

In the Darkness 14

The Springtime 15

To Grace 16

Hope 16

Farewell 16

An Escapade Undertaken by A Green Raspberry, & A Kidney Bean 17

Twilight 18

The Old Inkstand 18

Friendship 18

Friendship (2) 19

The Song of my Lady 20

The Old Year and the New Year 21

1904

'This is my world, this room of mine' 22

'Dear friend' 23

1906

'What, think you, causes me truest Joy' 24

The Students' Room 24

'To those who can understand her' 24

A Common Ballad 25

T constantly am hearing' 25

Shadows 26

The [...] Child of the Sea 26

1907

Collection: Children's Book of Verse

Verses of Little Q 28

One Day 28

'The little boy' 28

'The sunlight shone in golden beams' 29

A Young Ladies Version of The Cards 29

The Bath Baby 29

'This is just a little song' 31

T have a little garden plot' 31

A Fine Day 32

A New Hymn 32

The Black Monkey 33

The Family 33

'When I was little' 34

The Clock 34

The Letter 35

The Birthday Present 35

The Pillar Box 36

Song by the Window Before Bed 37

The Funeral 37

A Little Boy's Dream 37

Winter Song 38

On a Young Lady's Sixth Anniversary 39

Song, of the Little White Girl 39

A Few Rules for Beginners 39

A Day in Bed 40

Opposites 41

A Joyful Song of Five! 42

The Candle Fairy 42

The Last Thing 43

A Quarrel 44

A Song for Our Real Children 44

Grown Up Talks 44

You won't understand this - 'cause you're a Boy 45

The Lonesome Child 45

Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child 46

Autumn Song 47

'Out here it is the Summer time' 47

'London London I know what I shall do' 48

A Fairy Tale 48

Vignette 50

In the Rangitaiki Valley 50

Youth 51

1908

'Red as the wine of forgotten ages' 52

The Grandmother 52

Butterflies 53

Little Brother's Secret 53

The Man with the Wooden Leg 53

Little Brother's Story 54

The Candle 54

When I was a Bird 55

Ave 56

'Lo I am standing the test' 56

Why Love is Blind 57

'Out to the glow of the sunset, brother' 57

In the Tropics 58

'I am quite happy for you see' 59

To Pan 59

October (To V.M.B.) 60

'You ask me for a picture of my room' 60

Words for T.W.T. 61

A Sad Truth 61

A Song of Summer 62

The Winter Eire 62

In the Church 63

The Lilac Tree 63

On the Sea Shore 64

Revelation 64

The Trio 65

1909

The Arabian Shawl 67

Sleeping Together 67

The Quarrel (2) 68

Spring Wind in London 68

'I could find no rest' 70

Floryan nachdenklich 71

To Stanislaw Wyspianski 71

1910

Song of Karen the Dancing Child 73

Loneliness 73

The Sea-Child 74

Sea Song 74

'A gipsy's camp was in the copse' 76

Collection: The Earth Child

I 'It has rained all day' 76

II 'In the very early morning' 76

III 'Through the dark forest we walked apart and silently' 77

IV 'The Sea called - I lay on the rocks and said' 78

V 'In an opal dream cave I found a fairy' 78

VI 'The fields are snowbound no longer' 78

VII 'My beloved rose out of the river' 79

VIII 'The tassels of the broom swept the long hillside' 79

IX 'In a narrow path of a wood I met a witch' 80

X 'When my plant grew too big for the flowerpot' 80

XI 'The door of your room is never opened' 80

XII 'Across the red sky two birds flying' 81

XIII 'I ran to the forest for shelter' 81

XIV 'A little wind crept round the house' 82

XV 'Why are you smiling so?' 82

XVI 'From a far distant land' 83

XVII 'You put your hands behind your back' 83

XVIII 'There are days when the longing for you' 84

XIX 'Night came - I opened my eyes' 84

XX 'There was a child once' 85

XXI 'Ajar of daffodils stood on the piano' 86

XXII 'In the swiftly moving sleigh' 86

XXIII 'Round me in a ring' 87

XXIV 'How quiet the Grandmother's hands' 88

XXV 'In the purple heather' 88

XXVI 'How far have you come' 89

XXVII 'In the savage heart of the bush" 89

XXVIII 'I had company tonight' 90

To God the Father 91

Yesterday in Autumn 91

Violets 92

Jangling Memory 92

The Changeling 93

Thought Dreams 93

To K.M. 94

1911

Limbo 95

'The world is beautiful tonight' 95

Mr. Richard Le Gallienne 96

Mr. Alfred Austin 96

Love Cycle 97

1912

Mirabelle 99

'And Mr Wells' 99

'She has thrown me the knotted flax' 100

The Secret 100

The Awakening River 100

Very Early Spring 101

1913

Where did you get that hat? 102

Song of the Camellia Blossoms 102

The Last Lover 102

Scarlet Tulips 103

1914

'William (P.G.) is very well' 104

The Meeting 105

'These be two countrywomen' 105

1915

'Most merciful God' 107

The Deaf House Agent 107

'Toujours fatignee, Madame?' 108

1916

'Twenty to twelve, says our old clock' 109

To L.H.B. 109

'Last night for the first time since you were dead" 110

The Gulf 110

Villa Pauline 111

Camomile Tea 111

The Town Between the Hills 112

Waves 114

Voices of the Air! 115

Sanary 116

'Lives like logs of driftwood' 116

1917

A Victorian Idyll 117

Night-Scented Stock 117

'Now I am a Plant, a Weed' 118

'Out in the Garden' 119

'There is a solemn wind tonight' 119

Tragedy 120

'So that mysterious mother, faint with sleep' 120

A Version from Heine 120

1918

Caution 122

The Butterfly 123

Strawberries and the Sailing Ship 124

Malade 124

Pic-Nic 125

Arrivée 125

Dame Seule 126

Verses Writ in a Foreign Bed 126

1919

To Anne Estelle Rice 127

Fairy Tale 128

Covering Wings 128

Firelight 129

Tedious Brief Adventure of K.M. 129

Men and Women 130

Friendship 130

Sorrowing Love 131

A Little Girl's Prayer 132

Secret Flowers 132

The New Husband 133

He wrote 134

Et Après 135

The Ring 135

1920

Old-Fashioned Widow's Song 137

Sunset 137

'By all the laws of the M. & P.' 138

1921

Winter Bird 139

1922

The Wounded Bird 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1474417272

9781474417273

OCLC:

954429484