An Anatomy of Poetry, Vol. 1

by Amabel Williams-Ellis

Excerpt from An Anatomy of Poetry, Vol. 1
Certain portions of this book have appeared from time to time in The Spectator.
The author acknowledges the courtesy of the authors and publishers in giving her permission to quote excerpts from the following books: A. D. Waley's Japanese Poetry (Milford) and More Translations from the Chinese (Allen and Unwin); Mr. Masefield's works (Heinemann); Charlotte Mew's The Farmer's Bride (Poetry Bookshop); E.: V. Lucas's Parodies Regained (Methuen); Edward Shanks's The Island of Youth (Collins) and The Queen of China (Secker); Augustine Rivers's The Death of Mercury (Daniel); W. W. Gibson's works (MacMillan); Osbert Sitwell's De Luxe (Leonard Parsons); Rupert Brooke's 1914 and other Poems, and Edmund Blunden's Waggoner (Sidgwick and Jackson); Robert Nicholls's Aurelia (Chatto and Windus); D. H. Lawrence's Amores (Duckworth); J. E. Flecker's Collected Poems (Secker); Sturge Moore's works (Grant Richards); Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow (Chatto and Windus); and Walter de la Mare's Collected Works and The Veil (Constable).
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310 pages, Paperback

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Amabel Williams-Ellis was an English writer, critic, and early member of the Bloomsbury Group. Over the course of her life, Amabel Williams-Ellis wrote more than 40 books. These included novels, books for children, and histories. She wrote regularly for periodicals, and edited multiple volumes of folk legends, fairy tales, and science fiction. She was significantly inspired by the writer and explorer Mary Kingsley, who she had met in childhood, and who she described as 'an anthropologist before anthropology'. The Times described Amabel Williams-Ellis as someone who 'wrote books to find things out, and seemed prepared to take on anything.'
She died on 27 August 1984, at the age of 90. Shortly before her death, she published a memoir: “All Stracheys Are Cousins”.