Abstract
This article seeks to read the poetry and poetics of Anna Mendelssohn and Veronica Forrest-Thomson in dialogue with one another. Both were associated with the ‘Cambridge School’ of poetry, but never acquired the professional and social security enjoyed by some of the men of the movement. Beginning by offering a ‘Forrest-Thomsonian’ reading of Mendelssohn according to the precepts of Forrest-Thomson’s theory of poetry in Poetic Artifice, it then outlines Mendelssohn’s strategies for dealing with the responsibilities and challenges of poetic form. It then uses these principles to attempt a ‘Mendelssohnian’ reading of Forrest-Thomson’s poem ‘Approaching the Library’. Ultimately, it is hoped that by reading the poets together, we can explore their poetics and its relationship to knowledge through concrete examples of their texts’ operations.
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