'Noonday Rest', written on Hampstead Heath under the willows — 'Sometimes they lose a leaf, which, flickering slow,/Faints on the sunburnt leas.' How wonderfully [this] suggests the intolerable heat of a scorching noon! This poem is perhaps the best in the book, a book that contains nothing trivial, nothing shallow, nothing that is not poetry." Blind died in London on 26 November 1896, bequeathing to Newnham College, Cambridge the greater part of her property, which had mostly come to her late in life as a legacy from a half-brother Meyer Jacob ("Max") Cohen. She was cremated in Woking, and her ashes were later placed in a monument erected by a friend and sponsor, Ludwig Mond, and designed by Édouard Lantéri in St Pancras Cemetery. Works Poems, under the pseudonym "Claude Lake" (1867) "Shelley", a review of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with notes and a memoir by W. M. Rossetti, Westminster Review (July 1870) The Old Faith and the New: A Confession by David Friedrich Strauss, a translation from the German (1873; revised third edition with biographical essay on Strauss, 1874) "Mary Wollstonecraft", biographical essay, New Quarterly Magazine (July 1878) The Prophecy of St. Oran and Other Poems (1881) George Eliot, the first biography of the novelist (1883) Tarantella: A Romance (1885) The Heather on Fire: A Tale of the Highland Clearances (1886) Madame Roland, a biography (1886) "Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted With Darwin's", a lecture (1886) "Marie Bakshirtseff, The Russian Painter", a two-part biographical essay in the Woman's World (1888) The Ascent of Man (1889) The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff, a translation from the French of the Russian-born painter's journal (1890) Dramas in Miniature (1891) Songs and Sonnets (1893) Birds of Passage: Songs of the Orient and Occident (1895) A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind, edited by A. Symons (1897) The Ascent of Man, new edition with new "Introductory Note" by the evolutionary biologist Alfred R. Wallace (1899) The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons, with a memoir by Richard Garnett (1900) Assessment More recently Blind has attracted the attention of women's literature scholars. As one website puts it, "Her burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work. Her poetry combines great beauty of sound and image with vigorous narrative, delineation of character, emotional expressiveness, and engagement with intellectual ideas." The site mentions George