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impelling her to write. "She told of her earliest sense of 'the
Almighty's sheltering roof tree', of the fear that came to her as she viewed this 'secondary world'. 'I was shocked and sickened at the ways of one world, whilst I clung, ever more secretly, to the faint legacy which the other had left me.' She told also of that day at the age of fourteen 'in the charity of the brown autumn sunlight, I felt myself to be one of those who must try to relate their experiences, and to whom experiences are scenes, colours and sounds always, rather than events or actions.'" It is as faithful a characterisation of her work as any.
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457:(1952). In the introduction to this, she described sorting through the house and finding poems "everywhere: fairly copied in note-books, scribbled on bits of paper, stuffed into bookcases, cupboards and desks – one would not have been surprised to have found them in the oven – literally hundreds of poems."
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A selection of 32 poems was published by
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as "the first, arguably token, woman" to appear in the series caused some ill will in the poetry politics of the time. She was preferred over candidates who were being urged on the editor as more experienced and progressive, such as
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The tentative pointing here to a reality underlying outward appearance has been cited by a later religious commentator as the kind of mystical
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