The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays
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The Rhythm of Life
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Decivilised
6:12 -
A Remembrance
5:05 -
The Sun
5:14 -
The Flower
4:26 -
Unstable Equilibrium
3:14 -
The Unit of the World
7:11 -
By the Railway Side
4:52 -
Pocket Vocabularies
5:43 -
Pathos
4:26 -
The Point of Honour
5:33 -
Composure
7:01 -
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
8:26 -
James Russell Lowell
6:39 -
Domus Angusta
5:19 -
Rejection
4:29 -
The Lesson of Landscape
7:00 -
Mr. Coventry Patmore’s Odes
9:54 -
Innocence and Experience
4:17 -
Penultimate Caricature
6:55
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Recurring moods, changing states of mind and the language used to describe them give Alice Meynell's 1893 collection its opening concerns. The title essay treats happiness and sorrow as movements with their own intervals, comparing inner experience with tides, seasons and the moon. Shelley and Thomas à Kempis appear as writers who recognise these returns, while poetry and spiritual life provide examples of intense feeling followed by quieter periods.
Meynell also turns from personal experience to literary judgment. In 'Composure,' she considers how English words drawn from different traditions shape the emotional distance of a piece of writing, with Johnson, Canning and Addison among her examples. Her argument makes word choice a matter of temperament as well as meaning. These essays suit readers interested in reflective prose that moves between observation, literature and the habits of thought, especially the connection between what people feel and how they express it.
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- Alice Meynell
- Reading time
- About 80 minutes
- Pages
- 44
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Literature
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