Margaret Cropper
Margaret Cropper (1886–1980) was a Westmorland poet, author and hymnist, who rivalled Norman Nicholson as the leading 20th-century Lake Poet.[1]
Life and writings
The fourth of five children, Margaret Cropper was born into a long-established Quaker family of Burneside,[2] near Kendal, where she would live for the majority of her life.[3]
Her first book of poems – Poems – was published by
Norman Nicholson would later single her out for her exceptional ability to capture the Cumbrian vernacular, without resorting (as did others) to phonetic spelling or similar expedients.[6] Some of the products of her work were included by Robert Wilson Lynd in his 1939 Anthology of Modern Poetry,[7] while G. M. Trevelyan praised her poem The Broken Hearthstone especially for its ability to capture the personality of a mountain.[8]
In the post-war years, she turned largely to prose-writing, with her biography of her friend, Evelyn Underhill, The Life of Evelyn Underhill (1958), and her study of 19th-century Anglicanism, Flame Touches Flame (London, 1949). She is also known for her hymns and religious plays.[9]
The Wordsworths
Cropper's poem on Dorothy Wordsworth says:[10]
William's genius, unfaltering here, was sure
When he saw her kin to the natural wild things,
The lover and beloved of the sheltered valley,
And high enfolding hills
See also
References
- ^ G. Lindop, A Literary Guide to the Lake District (London, 1993), p. 264
- ^ F. Welsh, The Companion Guide to the Lake District (1997), p. 82
- ^ Biography
- ^ Margaret Cropper, Poems
- ^ G. Lindop, A Literary Guide to the Lake District (London, 1993), pg. 264
- ^ N. Nicolson, The Lake District (Penguin, 1978), pg. 17
- ^ Robert Wilson Lynd
- ^ G. M. Trevelyan, An Autobiography (London, 1949), pg. 103
- ^ Margaret Cropper
- ^ Quoted in N. Nicolson, The Lake District (Penguin 1978) pg. 235
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