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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... Body, nor did I think of the Heavens and the Earth, the Rivers and the Stars, the Sun or the Seas; all those were lost or absent from me. Dylan Thomas was born, just after the First World War broke out, in Swansea, another provincial ...
... Body, nor did I think of the Heavens and the Earth, the Rivers and the Stars, the Sun or the Seas; all those were lost or absent from me. Dylan Thomas was born, just after the First World War broke out, in Swansea, another provincial ...
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... bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like a dumb, numb thunderstorm of white, torn Christmas ...
... bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like a dumb, numb thunderstorm of white, torn Christmas ...
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... , To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way – the children's eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man. II I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of.
... , To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way – the children's eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man. II I dream of a Ledaean body, bent Above a sinking fire, a tale that she Told of.
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... O Presences That passion, piety or affection knows, And that all heavenly glory symbolise – O self-born mockers of man's enterprise; VIII Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty.
... O Presences That passion, piety or affection knows, And that all heavenly glory symbolise – O self-born mockers of man's enterprise; VIII Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty.
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Denis Healey. The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed ...
Denis Healey. The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed ...
Inhalt
OXFORD | |
THE | |
POLITICS | |
THE ARTS | |
NATURE | |
MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | |
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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