Essays

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Essays" by Alice Meynell is a collection of reflective and poetic essays written during the late 19th century. The work showcases the author's keen observations on nature, language, and humanity, offering insights into the beauty of the ordinary and the complexities of life. Meynell's prose exhibits a blend of personal sentiment and philosophical contemplation, cementing her voice in the literary canon of her time. The beginning of "Essays" introduces a variety of themes as Meynell articulates her thoughts on nature, specifically the wild beauty and resilience of growth in urban spaces like Rome. In the opening piece "Ceres' Runaway," she employs rich imagery to illustrate how nature triumphs over the constraints of civilization, emphasizing the enduring power of wildflowers that thrive despite attempts to tame them. This essay sets the tone for the collection, highlighting Meynell's observant and lyrical writing style as she navigates through concepts of beauty, existence, and the interplay between humanity and the natural world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

WINDS AND WATERS: Ceres' Runaway

Wells

Rain

The Tow Path

The Tethered Constellations

Rushes and Reeds

IN A BOOK ROOM: A Northern Fancy

Pathos

Anima Pellegrina!

A Point of Biography

The Honours of Mortality

Composure

The Little Language

A Counterchange

Harlequin Mercutio

COMMENTARIES: Laughter

The Rhythm of Life

Domus Angusta

Innocence and Experience

The Hours of Sleep

Solitude

Decivilized

WAYFARING: The Spirit of Place

Popular Burlesque

Have Patience, Little Saint

At Monastery Gates

The Sea Wall

ARTS: Tithonus

Symmetry and Incident

The Plaid

The Flower

Unstable Equilibrium

Victorian Caricature

The Point of Honour

THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT: The Colour of Life

The Horizon

In July

Cloud

Shadows

WOMEN AND BOOKS: The Seventeenth Century

Mrs. Dingley

Prue

Mrs. Johnson

Madame Roland

THE DARLING YOUNG: 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.

Credits:

Transcribed from the 1914 Burns & Oates edition by David Price

Notes:

Reading ease score: 65.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 1998-08-01