http://thereaderonline.co.uk/2009/09/14/featured-poem-o-may-i-join-the-choir-invisible-by-george-eliot/ The blog of the Reader Organisation Mon, 21 May 2012 14:32:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thereaderonline.co.uk/2009/09/14/featured-poem-o-may-i-join-the-choir-invisible-by-george-eliot/#comment-3123 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:22:53 +0000 http://thereaderonline.co.uk/?p=2719#comment-3123 “O May I join the Choir Invisible” is the only poem anthologized both in F.T. Palgrave’s The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, and that of Clarence Stedman. This matter can be adduced as ample evidence of the fact that pride of place was given to this poem and George Eliot seems to have been recognized more as a poet than a novelist during the early part of her writing career. The poem is an impassioned expression of the intense desire she craves for immortal fame and name as an author.

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