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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... 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 town surrounded by lovely country, with the sea ...
... 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 town surrounded by lovely country, with the sea ...
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... earth. The happiest days of my boyhood were spent in the Yorkshire moors and dales. I find their essence best captured in some of Emily Bronte's poetry: For the moors, for the moors where the short grass Like velvet beneath us should ...
... earth. The happiest days of my boyhood were spent in the Yorkshire moors and dales. I find their essence best captured in some of Emily Bronte's poetry: For the moors, for the moors where the short grass Like velvet beneath us should ...
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... earth is still. And deeper green is on the hill. * A little and a lone green lane That opened on a common wide A distant, dreamy, dim blue chain Of mountains circling every side – A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft ...
... earth is still. And deeper green is on the hill. * A little and a lone green lane That opened on a common wide A distant, dreamy, dim blue chain Of mountains circling every side – A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft ...
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... earth. Murphy is a seedy Irish solipsist living alone in London. He never wore a waistcoat because it made him feel like a woman, and never wore a hat, 'the memories it awoke of the caul were too poignant, especially when he had to take ...
... earth. Murphy is a seedy Irish solipsist living alone in London. He never wore a waistcoat because it made him feel like a woman, and never wore a hat, 'the memories it awoke of the caul were too poignant, especially when he had to take ...
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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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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