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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... Introduction 1 BOYHOOD 2 OXFORD 3 THE WAR 4 POLITICS 5 THE ARTS 6 NATURE 7 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN 8 AGE 9 DEATH 10 THE SPIRIT Epilogue Postscript A Note on the Author Footnote Introduction The original quality in any man of imagination ...
... Introduction 1 BOYHOOD 2 OXFORD 3 THE WAR 4 POLITICS 5 THE ARTS 6 NATURE 7 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN 8 AGE 9 DEATH 10 THE SPIRIT Epilogue Postscript A Note on the Author Footnote Introduction The original quality in any man of imagination ...
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... to discuss political issues in this book. My purpose here is to illuminate the nature of political activity compared, say, with writing poetry or painting pictures. You may be as surprised as I was to discover Introduction.
... to discuss political issues in this book. My purpose here is to illuminate the nature of political activity compared, say, with writing poetry or painting pictures. You may be as surprised as I was to discover Introduction.
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... nature, human relations and the spirit; inevitably there is a good deal of overlapping between these themes. Shortage of space prevents me from including very lengthy pieces, or I would print, for example, whole novels by Tolstoy ...
... nature, human relations and the spirit; inevitably there is a good deal of overlapping between these themes. Shortage of space prevents me from including very lengthy pieces, or I would print, for example, whole novels by Tolstoy ...
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... Nature. And if He be infinite in goodness and a Perfect Being in Wisdom and Love, certainly He must do most Glorious Things, and give us infinite riches; how comes it to pass therefore that I am so poor? Of so Scanty and Narrow a ...
... Nature. And if He be infinite in goodness and a Perfect Being in Wisdom and Love, certainly He must do most Glorious Things, and give us infinite riches; how comes it to pass therefore that I am so poor? Of so Scanty and Narrow a ...
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... nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest – Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or ...
... nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest – Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or ...
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OXFORD | |
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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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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