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Fredegond Shove

Fredegond Cecily Shove (1889–1949) was an English poet, the daughter of an eminent legal historian, whose family included Virginia Woolf and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Once acclaimed and widely anthologised, she was best known in her lifetime for her two collections of her poetry, Dreams and Journeys (including some of her best-known poems, ‘The Farmer 1917’ and ‘The New Ghost’, 1918) and Daybreak (published in 1922 by Virginia and Leonard Woolf through the Hogarth Press), as well as a study, Christina Rossetti (1931). Althogh a final collection appeared after her death, in 1956, her work has been unjustly neglected in intervening years.

The New Ghost

The New Ghost: Selected Poems restores to view one of the most distinctive yet neglected voices of early twentieth-century British poetry. Writing at the intersection of Georgian lyricism and Modernist literary culture, Shove developed a singular poetic vision in which the natural world, domestic life and the rhythms of ordinary experience open on to deeper mysteries of spiritual existence, offering a distinctive response to the uncertainties of the modern age.

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