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The Farmer's Bride is a poetry collection by Charlotte Mew, first published in 1916 under the imprint of Harold Monro 's Poetry Bookshop. An expanded collection of the same name, with eleven additional poems, appeared in 1921. This was published in the US under the title Saturday Market.
- Charlotte Mary Mew
- 1916
By Charlotte Mew. Three summers since I chose a maid, Too young maybe—but more’s to do. At harvest-time than bide and woo. When us was wed she turned afraid. Of love and me and all things human; Like the shut of a winter’s day. Her smile went out, and ’twadn’t a woman— More like a little frightened fay. One night, in the Fall, she runned away.
“The Farmer’s Bride” (1912) is a dramatic monologue by the English poet Charlotte Mew, and eventually became the title work of her acclaimed 1916 collection. The poem's speaker, a farmer, reflects on his marriage to a much younger girl, who is clearly afraid of him and uncomfortable with the traditional role she is expected to play as a ...
Her first collection, The Farmer's Bride, was published in 1916 in chapbook format by the Poetry Bookshop; in the United States this collection was entitled Saturday Market and published in 1921 by Macmillan.
The poem, published in 1916, tells the story of a farmer who marries “a maid” and describes their early experience of marriage. It is told from the farmer’s perspective; his wife is not ...
‘The Farmer's Bride’ by Charlotte Mew portrays a tragic tale of a young bride's fear and a farmer's obsession.
15. Jan. 2016 · Her poem ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ was first published in The Nation in 1912 and remains one of her most popular poems – even though the name ‘Charlotte Mew’ has not endured the way that those of her admirers, named above, have. Here is ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ along with a brief summary and analysis of it. The Farmer’s Bride.
