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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... 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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... poetry. In most cases I have set my quotations in their historical context, as I think it is difficult fully to ... poetry than prose. Poetry can concentrate its meaning far more intensely; it makes its point through images, sounds and ...
... poetry. In most cases I have set my quotations in their historical context, as I think it is difficult fully to ... poetry than prose. Poetry can concentrate its meaning far more intensely; it makes its point through images, sounds and ...
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... poetry, Berlioz on music, Van Gogh on painting, Blake and Dickinson on the life of the spirit. More than ever, I ... poets and novelists can teach us more than the so-called political scientists. However, this book is not intended to ...
... poetry, Berlioz on music, Van Gogh on painting, Blake and Dickinson on the life of the spirit. More than ever, I ... poets and novelists can teach us more than the so-called political scientists. However, this book is not intended to ...
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... poetry and prose chosen by Quiller-Couch. Since then I have returned to him again and again for inspiration. He describes the wonder of his childhood in one of his Meditations: The corn was Orient and Immortal Wheat, which never should ...
... poetry and prose chosen by Quiller-Couch. Since then I have returned to him again and again for inspiration. He describes the wonder of his childhood in one of his Meditations: The corn was Orient and Immortal Wheat, which never should ...
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... poetry until his death in 1864. Much of his verse is inspired by his childhood and youth. His descriptions of schoolboys remind me of my own return from school after I left the bus from Bradford and walked up Granby Lane to my home in ...
... poetry until his death in 1864. Much of his verse is inspired by his childhood and youth. His descriptions of schoolboys remind me of my own return from school after I left the bus from Bradford and walked up Granby Lane to my home in ...
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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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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