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“THE FAIR LIGHT MYSTERY OF IMAGES”: ALICE MEYNELL'S METAPHYSICAL TURN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2006

Tracy Seeley
Tracy Seeley
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Extract

poets dare

What the wild eye of fancy sees –

Similitude – the clear, the fair

Light mystery of images

—Alice Meynell, “The Return to Nature”

Type
Literary Pasts; Modernist Futures
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , September 2006 , pp. 663 - 684
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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