This delightful collection celebrates motherhood in all its forms. Here you will find all the joy, grief, self-sacrifice, occasional irritation but above all, the intimate tenderness of motherhood - whether evoked in a glimpse of a very human mother or through heroic tales of the great mother goddesses of myth, legend and religion.
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Douglas Brooks-Davies was born in Wimbledon in 1942, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and Brasenose College, Oxford. Formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester, where he remains an Honorary Research fellow, he has published widely on Renaissance and later literature, and is now a freelance writer. His hobbies include gardening, singing, and playing the oboe.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting but not powerful enough anthology,
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This review is from: Talking of Mothers: Poems for Every Mother (Everyman Poetry) (Paperback)
This anthology of poems about mothers has much of mourning, melancholy and loss in it. Brooks - Davies writes in his introduction, "So many of these poems register tenderness, and so many them pain." They deal with infant death, hard labor of the majority of women, the loss of the maiden name,pain of having to earn a living . I found the most touching poem that of John Masefield in which he shows gratitude for the anxiety and devotion of his mother in raising him.
This anthology is a bit too exclusively English for me. I too would have appreciated more poems of appreciation of mothers. And missing from the anthology in my feeling at least is any truly powerfully great and moving poem. When we consider that each and every human being owes a primary debt to its mother it is a bit disappointing reading these poems, and feeling that debt is not done justice. When I think of the goodness and kindness of my own mother, the faith and love she showed to all members of her family through difficult times I of course have the sense that no poem could do her justice.
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