Michael Field, For That Moment Only and Other Prose Works

Over the past thirty years the work of Michael Field - the penname of the couple Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper - has become established as one of the most important, and unique, literary voices of the fin de siècle. Although they are today remembered for their lyric poetry and verse drama, by sheer weight of volume alone, Bradley and Cooper wrote far more prose than poetry. Their diaries contain over a million words, and their letters and notebooks are extensive. Yet little of that prose has been made available to readers without access to the collections at the British Library, London, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

For a significant period in the 1890s Bradley and Cooper concentrated their energies on prose. A number of the prose works completed between 1889 and 1894 were collected by them in two 'series' under the title For That Moment Only. Inspired by Walter Pater and the latest developments in French literature, these croquis - prose sketches or prose poems - are their most concerted attempt to be 'contemporaneous', to capture fleeting experiences in exquisite prose. Clearly intended at one point for publication, the sketches were abandoned following their decisive break with their mentor Bernard Berenson and his partner Mary Costelloe in 1895.

Along with the entire text of For That Moment Only, this volume also brings together Michael Field's published stories and essays, other miscellaneous short prose located within their manuscripts, and their experiments with prose form found in 'Works and Days', their compendious diary. With an extensive scholarly introduction and authoritative notes, the volume places experimental short prose at the heart of Michael Field's creative project, opening Bradley and Cooper's work up to a readership which has hitherto associated them only with lyric poetry and verse drama.

Alex Murray is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. Sarah Parker is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University.

Reviews:

‘Alex Murray’s and Sarah Parker’s edition of Michael Field’s short prose, For That Moment Only, considers the small-scale, gem-like pieces that were either lifted from the diary or specifically composed for publication. These range from essays or even sermons to sketches, impressions, vignettes, croquis, short stories and pieces of memorably poetic prose. In their excellent and detailed introduction, the editors describe croquis or prose poems as “the fragmented and fleeting poetic forms we associate with modernism”, though this notional “modernity of form” goes back not only to the 1860s, with Baudelaire’s Petits Poèmes en prose and Pater’s early essays, but also to Novalis and Schlegel as well as Coleridge.’ — Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement 17 February 2023

Contents:

49-52	Michael Field Chronology Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.5	Cite
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53-56	Further Reading Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.6	Cite
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57-58	Note on the Text Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.7	Cite
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61-61	A Vision or a Waking Dream? Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.8	Cite
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62-62	The Hill to Loreto Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.9	Cite
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63-64	An Agony Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.10	Cite
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65-67	A Maenad Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.11	Cite
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68-69	A Traveller’s Tale Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.12	Cite
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70-72	Eriphion the Faun Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.13	Cite
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73-74	The Lady Moon Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.14	Cite
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75-78	A Faun Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.15	Cite
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81-81	Darkened Eyes Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.16	Cite
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82-82	Gwen Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.17	Cite
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83-83	A Face Seen in Ling Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.18	Cite
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84-84	By the Sundial Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.19	Cite
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85-85	A Wintry Sea Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.20	Cite
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86-86	The Granary Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.21	Cite
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87-88	Incongruity Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.22	Cite
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89-90	The Fairy Knight Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.23	Cite
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91-92	Grandfather’s Chair Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.24	Cite
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93-94	Cupid at College Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.25	Cite
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97-102	An Old Couple Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.26	Cite
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103-105	Mid-Age Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.27	Cite
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106-110	A Lumber-Room Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.28	Cite
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111-119	Effigies Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.29	Cite
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120-122	The Fate of the Crossways Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.30	Cite
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125-125	Rhythm Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.31	Cite
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126-127	A Death Bed Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.32	Cite
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128-129	Sunset Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.33	Cite
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130-130	Dies Irae Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.34	Cite
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131-131	Let Me Help You Along Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.35	Cite
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132-132	Quai d’Anjou Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.36	Cite
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133-137	Between Rome and Ancona Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.37	Cite
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138-139	Wanting is — What? Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.38	Cite
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140-142	A Superstition Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.39	Cite
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143-143	The Broken Pediment Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.40	Cite
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144-144	The Past Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.41	Cite
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147-148	Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.42	Cite
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149-150	Botticelli’s Primavera Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.43	Cite
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151-151	Botticelli’s Venus and Mars Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.44	Cite
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152-152	Greiffenhagen’s An Idyll Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.45	Cite
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153-154	Manet’s Olympia Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.46	Cite
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155-156	A Renaissance Dream Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.47	Cite
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157-159	Hallucinations Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.48	Cite
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160-161	Study For a Krankenhaus ‘Conte’ Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.49	Cite
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162-162	Gentle Death Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.50	Cite
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163-164	It Was an Old House Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.51	Cite
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165-165	The Morgue Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.52	Cite
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166-167	The Morgue Revisited Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.53	Cite
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168-168	The Waxworks Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.54	Cite
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169-169	Omissions Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.55	Cite
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170-170	Hyacinthus Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.56	Cite
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171-171	An Oat-feld in June Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.57	Cite
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172-172	An Oat-feld in September Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.58	Cite
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173-174	Daffodils Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.59	Cite
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175-176	Bramber Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.60	Cite
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177-177	Pevensey Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.61	Cite
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178-178	Herstmonceux Castle Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.62	Cite
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179-180	Haslemere Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.63	Cite
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181-182	The Magic Corner Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.64	Cite
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185-185	Olive Schreiner, ‘The Gardens of Pleasure’ Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.65	Cite
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186-187	Alice Meynell, ‘A Pilgrim’ Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.66	Cite
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188-189	Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), ‘Mist’ Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.67	Cite
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190-191	Oscar Wilde, ‘The Disciple’ Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.68	Cite
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192-192	Ola Hansson, from Young Ofeg’s Ditties Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.69	Cite
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193-194	Katherine Mansfeld, ‘Leves Amores’ Alex Murray, Sarah Parker doi:10.2307/j.ctv2phprrp.70	Cite
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