The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered ''far and away the best living woman poet'' in her day.
Andrew Motion''s Spectator Book of the Year.
-One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that tired view of the poet as mouse that barely roared in favour of a true sense of a spikily modern woman, bound by various obligations but resilient, headstrong, and poetically inventive . . . Copus-s diligent, scholarly, sensitive work should help Mew-s pipe play on for years to come.- Declan Ryan, Los Angeles Review of Books
''[A] supreme biography . . . It is hard to do justice to the breadth of research Copus has done here, or the compassionate, detailed conjuring of Mew and her milieu . . . An essential book, a classic work of literary biography.'' Se-Hewitt, Irish Times
''[K]eenly intelligent, fascinating and nuanced biography . . . Save Charlotte Mew! And r
