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Alice Mary Buckton

1867–1944


Alice Mary Buckton (1867–1944) was an English educator, poet, community playwright, feminist, Celtic revivalist and mystic. In 1899 she established a Froebelian educational institution, Sesame House.

The poems printed here are those given in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917), edited by D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee; the text is taken from that anthology.

  1. The Great Response
  2. Before the Dawn

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