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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... writers get into forty pages. I have often included quotations from writers whose general attitude to life I do not share. You can enjoy much of D.H. Lawrence without supporting phallocracy, and find insights in much of.
... writers get into forty pages. I have often included quotations from writers whose general attitude to life I do not share. You can enjoy much of D.H. Lawrence without supporting phallocracy, and find insights in much of.
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... enjoy again, at leisure, books which the pressure of my political work compelled me to put at the back of my mind. If I succeed in communicating some of my own excitement to you, I shall be content. I hope you may want to read more of ...
... enjoy again, at leisure, books which the pressure of my political work compelled me to put at the back of my mind. If I succeed in communicating some of my own excitement to you, I shall be content. I hope you may want to read more of ...
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... enjoy a more sober romanticism in his novels, Sard Harker and Odtaa about a young man's adventures in South America; Odtaa stood for 'one damn thing after another', an audacious title for those days. However, I enjoyed even more his ...
... enjoy a more sober romanticism in his novels, Sard Harker and Odtaa about a young man's adventures in South America; Odtaa stood for 'one damn thing after another', an audacious title for those days. However, I enjoyed even more his ...
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... enjoy, 'Cargoes': Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the ...
... enjoy, 'Cargoes': Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the ...
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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