The Hours of Fiammetta: A Sonnet Sequence
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The Hours of Fiammetta - Rachel Annand Taylor
Rachel Annand Taylor
The Hours of Fiammetta
A Sonnet Sequence
EAN 8596547341314
DigiCat, 2022
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A SONNET SEQUENCE
RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR
A SONNET SEQUENCE
Table of Contents
BY
RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR
Table of Contents
"Thou which lov'st to be
Subtle to plague thyself"—
LONDON:
ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET
MCMX
The Epilogue of the Dreaming Women
is reprinted by
permission of the English Review.
PREFACE
There are two great traditions of womanhood. One presents the Madonna brooding over the mystery of motherhood; the other, more confusedly, tells of the acolyte, the priestess, the clairvoyante of the unknown gods. This latter exists complete in herself, a personality as definite and as significant as a symbol. She is behind all the processes of art, though she rarely becomes a conscious artist, except in delicate and impassioned modes of living. Indeed, matters are cruelly complicated for her if the entanglements of destiny drag her forward into the deliberate aesthetic effort. Strange, wistful, bitter and sweet, she troubles and quickens the soul of man, as earthly or as heavenly lover redeeming him from the spiritual sloth which is more to be dreaded than any kind of pain.
The second tradition of womanhood does not perish; but, in these present confusions of change, women of the more emotional and imaginative type are less potent than they have been and will be again. They appear equally inimical and heretical to the opposing camps of hausfrau and of suffragist. Their intellectual forces, liberated and intensified, prey upon the more instinctive part of their natures, vexing them with unanswerable questions. So Fiammetta mistakes herself to some degree, loses her keynote, becomes embittered and perplexed. The equilibrium of soul and body is disturbed; and she fortifies herself in an obstinate idealism that cannot come to terms with the assaults of life. No single sonnet expresses absolute truth from even her own point of view. The verses present the moods, misconceptions, extravagances, revulsions, reveries—all the obscure crises whereby she reaches a state of illumination and reconciliation