A Roadside Harp - Louise Imogen Guiney

Preface: This is a brief book mention of a work by Louise Guiney. There are a few references to the works she has created, some influences, and her areas of inspiration. Enjoy the snippet...

Miss Guiney prefers her poetry to be judged by the volume entitled A Roadside Harp. "Miss Guiney," writes a friend from over the seas, " is in love with by-gone things -- with the wealth of beauty and art which a people old in civilization has heaped up for itself. This is why she, the daughter of a distinguished Irish-American soldier, joins to her Celtic passion for beauty a great love of England. Reading her work, one is often reminded of her countryman Mr. Henry James's Passionate Pilgrim. Hers is no New World inspiration for beauty vast and shapeless. She is fascinated by old abbeys, old graveyards, old castles and houses; English villages, red-roofed and embowered in trees; English landscapes, mellow with age and cultivation.. . . Old conventions of hon-our and chivalry, old simplicities and adornments of religion, appeal to her, as do the poets who are English classics."

Book Review date: 
Sunday, November 1, 2015
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