Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems

By Radclyffe Hall

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 6, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066233488

Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) was an English poet and novelist. Born to a wealthy English father and an American mother in Bournemouth, Hampshire, Hall was left a sizeable fortune following her parents’ separation in 1882. Raised in a troubled environment, Hall struggled to gain financial independence from her mother and stepfather. As she took control of her inheritance, Hall began dressing in men’s clothing and identifying herself as a “congenital invert.” In 1907, she began a relationship with amateur singer Mabel Batten, who encouraged Hall to pursue a career in literature. By 1917, she had fallen in love with sculptor Una Troubridge, a cousin of Batten’s. After several poetry collections, Hall’s second novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was published, becoming a bestseller shortly thereafter. Adam’s Breed (1926), a novel about an Italian waiter who abandons modern life, earned Hall the Prix Femina and the James Tait Black Prize, two of the most prestigious awards in world literature. In 1928, Hall’s sixth novel, The Well of Loneliness, was published to widespread controversy for its depiction of lesbian romance. While an obscenity trial in the United Kingdom led to an order that all copies of the novel be destroyed, a lengthy trial in the United States eventually allowed the book’s publication. Recognized as a pioneering figure in lesbian literature, Hall lived in London with Una Troubridge until her death at the age of sixty-three.

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Radclyffe Hall

Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

RUSTIC COURTING

I WALKING OUT

II THE SHADOW OF RAGGEDSTONE

III THE LONG GREEN LANES OF ENGLAND

IV THE HILLS

V EASTNOR CHURCHYARD

VI THE MALVERN HILLS

VII THE FIRST CUCKOO

VIII DUSK IN THE LANE

IX THE MEETING-PLACE

X BY THE AVON

XI JEALOUSY

XII IN THE CITY

XIII I BE THINKIN’

XIV SUNDAY EVENING

XV THE LEDBURY TRAIN

XVI JILTED

XVII CASEND HILL

XVIII THE LEDBURY ROAD

XIX THE CALL TO LONDON

XX BREDON

XXI OUR DEAD

XXII PRIMROSE FLOWERS

XXIII TRAMPING

XXIV THE BLIND PLOUGHMAN

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

WHEN THE WIND COMES UP THE HILL

PEACE (Sidmouth)

LIME-TREES

A LITTLE SONG

THE SONG OF THE WATCHER

BY THE RIVER

THE ROAD TO COLLA

PRAYER

DAWN

TO THE EARTH

DAWN AMONG THE OLIVE GROVES

SILENT PLACES

ONE EVENING NEAR NICE

THOUGHTS AT AJACCIO

THREE CHILD-SONGS

AUTUMN IN SUSSEX

SI PARVA LICET COMPONERE MAGNIS

TO ITALY

SUNDAY IN LIGURIA

GEORGETOWN, U.S.A.

ON THE POTOMAC RIVER, U.S.A.

THE LOST WORD

COMPARISONS

A FRAGMENT

APPRECIATIONS

PRESS NOTICES Poems of the Past and Present.

INTRODUCTION

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WITH as much grace as if a monoplanist should attempt to write a preface to a book on flying for an albatross, so may a writer of mere prose attempt to pen an introduction to a book of poetry.

The bird and man both use the air, but with a difference. So do the poet and the man of prose use pen and ink.

Familiarity with tools, used in two branches of one art (or trade), is apt to prove a snare.

Music and poetry, the most ethereal of the arts upon the face of them, are in a way more mathematical than prose, for both have formulæ. Hence, their appeal goes quicker to men’s minds, and oversteps countries and languages to some degree, and makes it difficult to write about them. Of late, young poets, those who have bulked the largest in the public eye, those that the world has hailed as modern, have often been obscure. What is modernity?