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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... happy childhood, which I now recognize as a blessing beyond price. Indeed I was reluctant to leave my childhood behind. During my teens my friends often accused me of being childish. I much preferred that to being called adolescent, and ...
... happy childhood, which I now recognize as a blessing beyond price. Indeed I was reluctant to leave my childhood behind. During my teens my friends often accused me of being childish. I much preferred that to being called adolescent, and ...
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... happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and ...
... happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and ...
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... happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the ...
... happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the ...
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... happy as the heart was long, In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways, My wishes raced through the horse high hay And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows In all his tuneful turning so few and such ...
... happy as the heart was long, In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways, My wishes raced through the horse high hay And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows In all his tuneful turning so few and such ...
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... happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed. But here a small boy says: 'It snowed last year, too. I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.' 'But that was not the same snow,' I ...
... happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed. But here a small boy says: 'It snowed last year, too. I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.' 'But that was not the same snow,' I ...
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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