My Secret PlanetA&C Black, 16.07.2012 - 350 Seiten In this autobiography, Denis Healey reveals the breadth of his interests and his knowledge of the arts. In this book, he takes time to look at the literary influences that have shaped his life - his comments are interlaced with quotations from poetry, fiction, philosophy and history, providing a guide to help readers rediscover books he or she may once have read, following onto new authors. |
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... John Clare's schoolboys when I first read him after the war. Clare was born in 1793 to a family of poor agricutural labourers near Peterborough; he worked as a herder at the age of seven. When he was twenty-seven his first book of poems ...
... John Clare's schoolboys when I first read him after the war. Clare was born in 1793 to a family of poor agricutural labourers near Peterborough; he worked as a herder at the age of seven. When he was twenty-seven his first book of poems ...
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... John's College Cambridge with a scholarship. Later he was proud of having served in the college militia with Lord Palmerston. I was equally proud of the fact that while he was Parson of Haworth he lectured at the Mechanics Institute in ...
... John's College Cambridge with a scholarship. Later he was proud of having served in the college militia with Lord Palmerston. I was equally proud of the fact that while he was Parson of Haworth he lectured at the Mechanics Institute in ...
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... John Buchan who pursued the dastardly Hun everywhere from Godalming or the Scottish borders to the Middle East. I thrilled to the generosity with which Richard Hannay could say of his opponent 'and in his own foul way, he too was a ...
... John Buchan who pursued the dastardly Hun everywhere from Godalming or the Scottish borders to the Middle East. I thrilled to the generosity with which Richard Hannay could say of his opponent 'and in his own foul way, he too was a ...
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... John of Austria Has set his people free! Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homewards with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain. Up which a lean and ...
... John of Austria Has set his people free! Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homewards with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain. Up which a lean and ...
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... feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering.
... feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering.
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OXFORD | |
THE | |
POLITICS | |
THE ARTS | |
NATURE | |
MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | |
8 | |
DEATH | |
THE SPIRIT | |
Epilogue | |
Postscript | |
A Note on the Author Footnote | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
artists beauty bloody Bloomsbury set called century cloud colour D-Day Dodgers D.H. Lawrence dark death described doth dream earth Emily Dickinson eyes face father fear feel flowers friends Gerard Manley Hopkins green hand happy head hear heart heaven Heine Heinrich Heine hill Hopkins human Immanuel Kant Kant Labour later light live look Lukeria man’s master mind morning mother mountains moved nature never night o’er once Oxford painter painting philosophy play pleasure poem poetry poets politician politics Quentin Bell seemed Shakespeare sing songs soul sweet T.S. Eliot thee there’s things Thomas Traherne thou thought Timothy Winters Tom Paulin Traherne trees Virginia Woolf walk Wendy Cope William Blake wind woman women words writing wrote Yeats young