Phillip Harries

What a remarkable lady - and so resilient and pithy in her verse! Her writing still has resonance. And yet she can be a bit austere and distant: "Here above the clouds, / Even the sight of people / Scrambling in chaos / Through the fire and smoke, / How it entrances me!" And bitter: "Though I had thought / That I would lose myself / Upon the paths of love, / Thither I have been drawn / By my wretched destiny." Utimately, she is other-worldly and many times profound. Definitely a *major* work that should be put back in print.… (meer)