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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... poets and novelists can teach us more than the so-called political scientists. However, this book is not intended to instruct; I want above all to let you share in the pleasure I have had from reading throughout my life. The months I ...
... poets and novelists can teach us more than the so-called political scientists. However, this book is not intended to instruct; I want above all to let you share in the pleasure I have had from reading throughout my life. The months I ...
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... Poem in October' is another of my favourites. His early success, however, went to his head. He was lionized by the literary set which frequented the Fitzroy Tavern in Soho. His friend Louis MacNeice describes him as 'Gwilym' in 'Autumn ...
... Poem in October' is another of my favourites. His early success, however, went to his head. He was lionized by the literary set which frequented the Fitzroy Tavern in Soho. His friend Louis MacNeice describes him as 'Gwilym' in 'Autumn ...
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... poems on rural life and scenery brought him a short-lived celebrity in London; his 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 ...
... poems on rural life and scenery brought him a short-lived celebrity in London; his 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 ...
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... poem had his modern parallels: When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, ''weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre ...
... poem had his modern parallels: When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry, ''weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre ...
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... poem I read in recent years by Charles Causley, a schoolmaster in Cornwall, about a boy in his class: Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A blitz of a boy is ...
... poem I read in recent years by Charles Causley, a schoolmaster in Cornwall, about a boy in his class: Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A blitz of a boy is ...
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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