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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... Later in the same work he wrote: Once I remember (I think I was about 4 years old) when I thus reasoned with myself, sitting in a little Obscure Room in my father's poor House: If there be a God, certainly He must be infinite in ...
... Later in the same work he wrote: Once I remember (I think I was about 4 years old) when I thus reasoned with myself, sitting in a little Obscure Room in my father's poor House: If there be a God, certainly He must be infinite in ...
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... later years he wrote some superb scripts for the BBC, including Under Milk Wood, before he drank himself to death on the American lecture-circuit, a hazard that earlier poets did not have to face. Shortly before he died at the age of ...
... later years he wrote some superb scripts for the BBC, including Under Milk Wood, before he drank himself to death on the American lecture-circuit, a hazard that earlier poets did not have to face. Shortly before he died at the age of ...
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... later works earned little money, and he had to return to working on the land. Poverty and drink gave him delusions which led to him spending his last twenty-seven years in an asylum for the insane, though he continued writing great ...
... later works earned little money, and he had to return to working on the land. Poverty and drink gave him delusions which led to him spending his last twenty-seven years in an asylum for the insane, though he continued writing great ...
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... later brought massive unemployment to Yorkshire and especially to Todmorden, where my Auntie Maggie worked in a mill. We began giving a penny a week from our pocket money to buy 'Boots for the Bairns'. I began to realize that 'The ...
... later brought massive unemployment to Yorkshire and especially to Todmorden, where my Auntie Maggie worked in a mill. We began giving a penny a week from our pocket money to buy 'Boots for the Bairns'. I began to realize that 'The ...
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... later life to discover that Yeats' family came originally from Yorkshire. Patrick Brontë, the father of Charlotte and Emily, was born in Ireland, where his name was Pronty or Brunty. Somehow or other he managed to get from a small ...
... later life to discover that Yeats' family came originally from Yorkshire. Patrick Brontë, the father of Charlotte and Emily, was born in Ireland, where his name was Pronty or Brunty. Somehow or other he managed to get from a small ...
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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