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The Man With A Hammer: "Desire and longing are the whips of God"
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Anna Wickham was the main pseudonym used by Edith Alice Mary Harper who was born on 7th May 1883, Wimbledon, Surrey.
Her first poetry collection was published privately in 1911 under another pseudonym, John Oland. Appropriately enough it was called Songs by John Oland. The main theme of the book was the difficulties of relationships between men and women. Unfortunately, her possessive husband was very upset at her publication, having also shown little support for her earlier singing and acting careers. It led to violent quarrels and sadly Anna had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to a private psychiatric hospital for a period of six weeks.
Shortly after recovering, she met Harold Monro at his Poetry Bookshop. He encouraged her writing, and this led to a second collection being published in 1915. Her life now became increasingly split between domesticity and the yearned for bohemian life that was now calling her.
Whilst the poetry volumes she released are small in number she left behind several hundred unpublished poems that survived both the war and her life. Today she is regarded as a leading Modernist poet who was able to frankly express her desires and feelings through verse despite these often being at odds with the prevailing morals of the day.
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The Man With A Hammer - Anna Wickham
The Man With A Hammer by Anna Wickham
Anna Wickham was the main pseudonym used by Edith Alice Mary Harper who was born on 7th May 1883, Wimbledon, Surrey.
Her first poetry collection was published privately in 1911 under another pseudonym, John Oland. Appropriately enough it was called Songs by John Oland. The main theme of the book was the difficulties of relationships between men and women. Unfortunately, her possessive husband was very upset at her publication, having also shown little support for her earlier singing and acting careers. It led to violent quarrels and sadly Anna had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to a private psychiatric hospital for a period of six weeks.
Shortly after recovering, she met Harold Monro at his Poetry Bookshop. He encouraged her writing, and this led to a second collection being published in 1915. Her life now became increasingly split between domesticity and the yearned for bohemian life that was now calling her.
Whilst the poetry volumes she released are small in number she left behind several hundred unpublished poems that survived both the war and her life. Today she is regarded as a leading Modernist poet who was able to frankly express her desires and feelings through verse despite these often being at odds with the prevailing morals of the day.
Index of Contents
Invitation
Examination
Return of Pleasure
Fecundity
Resolution
Formalist
Comment
Note on Rhyme
The Poet in the House
Fear of the Supreme
A Woman in Bed
The Recluse
Demand
The Tired Woman
The Unremitting Weariness
The Wife
The Defiance
Woman Determines to Take Her Own Advice
Outline
Definition
The Angry Woman
Song of the Low-caste Wife
To the Silent Man
Supplication
The Wife's Song.—I
The Wife's Song.—II
Creatrix
The Shrew
Reward
The Sad Lover
The Artificer
Necromancy
The Recompense
Flagellant
The Stormy Moon
Words
Abdication
Aseptic
Divorce
Nervous Prostration
The Fired Pot
Retrospect
The Pioneer
Traducers
The Choice
The Promise
The Assignation
Ceremony
Service
The Cruel Lover
Remembrance
State Endowment
Ordeal
The Faithful Mother
After Annunciation
A Boy's Mouth
The Mother-in-Law
The Individualist
The Walk
All Men to Women
A Girl in Summer
The Anchorite
The Song-maker
Imperatrix
Song of Anastasia
Question
The Conscience
Song of the Weak
Release
The Contrast
Tatterdemalion
The Ghost
Women and Multitudes
The Woman's Mind
Self-esteem
The Avenue
The Solace
Warning
Eternal Songs
The Woman of the Hill
Oasis
The Meeting
The Little Language
Vanity
The Walk in the Woods
Invocation
Irresolute Lover
A Man in Love
The Silence
Fear
The Flight
Slave of the Fire
The Supreme Courtesy
The Farewell
Regret
Surrender
The Mill
The Cup
Sung of Clarissa
Wander Song
The Thief
Revelation
Sea to the Waning Moon
Transmutation
A House in Hampstead
The Awakening
The Trespasser
Concerning Certain Criticism:
The Explainers
Faith
Insensibility
Concerning the Conversation of Mr H
To Anita the Bountiful Mother
The Passer
The Sentimental Debtor
The Dependence
The Bargainer
To Anita the Gardener
The Call
Verity
Epicurean Lover
The Poet's Change of Mind
Diffidence
To ''Nucleus"
The Neophyte
Absolute
The Fallow
Hommage Eternel
The Return
The Winded Horn
The Little Room
Modern Anomalies
The Economist
Inconstancy
Song
The Poet
For Pity
Prayer for Miracle
De Profundis
The Torture
Sanctuary
Immortality
Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of
Quest
The Song of Pride
My Lady Surrenders
Counsel of Arrogance
Prayer on Sunday
Effect of Gifts on a Recipient
Sung to the Social Reformer
The Journey
The Viper
Doom
Outlaw
The Fresh Start
Domestic Economy
The Mocker
A Song of Women
The Foundling
The Town Dirge
The Song of the Child
Theft
Mater Dolorosa
Solitary
Miserere mei Deus
Inspiration
Envoi
Anna Wickham – A Short Biography
Anna Wickham – A Concise Bibliography
THE MAN WITH A HAMMER
My Dear was a mason
And I was his stone.
And quick did he fashion
A house of his own.
As fish in the waters,
As birds in a tree,
So natural and blithe lives
His spirit in me.
INVITATION
Come, my Content,
The hungry days are spent!—
Beauty, illumine me
As sunlight fills a narrow waveless sea!
EXAMINATION
If my work is to be good,
I must transcend skill, I must master mood.
For the expression of the rare thing in me.
Is not in do, but deeper, in to be.
Something of this kind was meant,
When piety was likened to a scent.
A smell is not
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