Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Counter-attack
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Counter-Attack, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331823820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from Counter-Attack, and Other Poems In appearance he 13 tall, big - boned, 1005e built. He is clean shaven, pale or with a flush; has a heavy jaw, wide mouth with the upper lip slightly protruding and the curve of it very pronounced like that of a shrivel led leaf (as I have noticed is common in many poets). His nose is aquiline, the nostrils being wide and heavily arched. This characteristic and the fullness, depth and heat of his dark eyes give him the air of a sullen falcon. He speaks slowly, enunciating the words as if they pained him, in a voice that has something of the troubled thickness apparent in the voices Of those who emerge from a deep grief. As he speaks, his large hands, roughened by trench toil and by riding, wan der aimlessly until some emotion grips him when the knuckles harden and he clutches at his knees or at the edge of the table. And all the while he will be breath ing hard like a man who has swum a distance. When he reads his poems he chants and one would think that he communed with himself save that, at the pauses, he shoots a powerful glance at the listener. Between the poems he is still but moves his lips. He likes best to speak of hunting (he will shout of it l), of Open air mornings when the gorse alone flames brighter than the sky, of country quiet, of his mother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331823820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from Counter-Attack, and Other Poems In appearance he 13 tall, big - boned, 1005e built. He is clean shaven, pale or with a flush; has a heavy jaw, wide mouth with the upper lip slightly protruding and the curve of it very pronounced like that of a shrivel led leaf (as I have noticed is common in many poets). His nose is aquiline, the nostrils being wide and heavily arched. This characteristic and the fullness, depth and heat of his dark eyes give him the air of a sullen falcon. He speaks slowly, enunciating the words as if they pained him, in a voice that has something of the troubled thickness apparent in the voices Of those who emerge from a deep grief. As he speaks, his large hands, roughened by trench toil and by riding, wan der aimlessly until some emotion grips him when the knuckles harden and he clutches at his knees or at the edge of the table. And all the while he will be breath ing hard like a man who has swum a distance. When he reads his poems he chants and one would think that he communed with himself save that, at the pauses, he shoots a powerful glance at the listener. Between the poems he is still but moves his lips. He likes best to speak of hunting (he will shout of it l), of Open air mornings when the gorse alone flames brighter than the sky, of country quiet, of his mother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Includes "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," "Base Details," and other poems.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Includes "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," "Base Details," and other poems.
Collected Poems, 1908-1956
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Elegy
Author: Stephen Regan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0241269636
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month) 'If you have any weakness at all for poetry, this book will draw you in, then devastate you' Susie Goldsbrough. The Times Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In The Penguin Book of Elegy, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, from its Classical roots in the work of Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid down to modern compositions exploring personal tragedy and collective grief by such celebrated voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Denise Riley. The only comprehensive anthology of its kind in the English language, The Penguin Book of Elegy is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honour the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0241269636
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month) 'If you have any weakness at all for poetry, this book will draw you in, then devastate you' Susie Goldsbrough. The Times Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In The Penguin Book of Elegy, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, from its Classical roots in the work of Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid down to modern compositions exploring personal tragedy and collective grief by such celebrated voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Denise Riley. The only comprehensive anthology of its kind in the English language, The Penguin Book of Elegy is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honour the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.
The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature
Author: Dennis Brown
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349199133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349199133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.
A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: Serial publications, 1890-1990
Author: Kenneth Blackwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415109130
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Provides for the first time a full, descriptive bibliography of Russell's writings. Textually orientated, it will guide the scholar, collector and the general reader to the authoritative editions of Russell's works.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415109130
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Provides for the first time a full, descriptive bibliography of Russell's writings. Textually orientated, it will guide the scholar, collector and the general reader to the authoritative editions of Russell's works.
Report
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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Author: Scribner Book Store, New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Lawrence
Author: Bruce Leigh
Publisher: Tattered Flag
ISBN: 095768925X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
More than one hundred books have been written about T.E. Lawrence which explore the man and his deeds. Just about every aspect and the many incarnations of his life, his campaigns, the geo-politics of the Arab world, and the influence of the West in it, as Lawrence experienced them, have been examined. However, nobody has gone in search of the mind of the man himself – of his formation and his deep beliefs. Nobody has asked the question, What, really, is the source of the extraordinary power of this little man? – not only in terms of his incontestable qualities of leadership, but also in regard to the sheer range of his activities and accomplishments. Archaeologist, writer, guerilla warfare theorist and practitioner, diplomat, soldier and airman, Lawrence also possessed an unusual ability to cross boundaries of class, race, culture, and religion. On top of this, he demonstrated the ability to walk away from power and wealth and the accumulation of things – to change his name more than once; to begin again at the bottom of the heap in the RAF, and stay there, with only a few friends and books and a motorcycle. Lawrence – Warrior and Scholar is a quest. It examines how a slight Oxford academic combined two of the most challenging paths a man can choose. What drove and motivated this man? How was it that he could apparently out-shoot, out-ride, and out-starve the Bedouin? How is it that the US military, and others, are still studying his famous account of the Arab Revolt and his ‘27 Articles’? Drawing upon what Lawrence and those who knew him wrote, and did, and said, Bruce Leigh delves into Lawrence’s personal philosophy and practices, examining and analyzing his library, and his close relationship to the world of classical scholarship and chivalry, emphasizing that Lawrence’s views were not abstractions only, but intimately tied to his actions and deeds. Ultimately, the book argues that there is a message in Lawrence’s writings and activities – one that is against the grain of the world of self-definition by consumption. As one of his friends wrote: ‘The Man was great, the message is greater.’
Publisher: Tattered Flag
ISBN: 095768925X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
More than one hundred books have been written about T.E. Lawrence which explore the man and his deeds. Just about every aspect and the many incarnations of his life, his campaigns, the geo-politics of the Arab world, and the influence of the West in it, as Lawrence experienced them, have been examined. However, nobody has gone in search of the mind of the man himself – of his formation and his deep beliefs. Nobody has asked the question, What, really, is the source of the extraordinary power of this little man? – not only in terms of his incontestable qualities of leadership, but also in regard to the sheer range of his activities and accomplishments. Archaeologist, writer, guerilla warfare theorist and practitioner, diplomat, soldier and airman, Lawrence also possessed an unusual ability to cross boundaries of class, race, culture, and religion. On top of this, he demonstrated the ability to walk away from power and wealth and the accumulation of things – to change his name more than once; to begin again at the bottom of the heap in the RAF, and stay there, with only a few friends and books and a motorcycle. Lawrence – Warrior and Scholar is a quest. It examines how a slight Oxford academic combined two of the most challenging paths a man can choose. What drove and motivated this man? How was it that he could apparently out-shoot, out-ride, and out-starve the Bedouin? How is it that the US military, and others, are still studying his famous account of the Arab Revolt and his ‘27 Articles’? Drawing upon what Lawrence and those who knew him wrote, and did, and said, Bruce Leigh delves into Lawrence’s personal philosophy and practices, examining and analyzing his library, and his close relationship to the world of classical scholarship and chivalry, emphasizing that Lawrence’s views were not abstractions only, but intimately tied to his actions and deeds. Ultimately, the book argues that there is a message in Lawrence’s writings and activities – one that is against the grain of the world of self-definition by consumption. As one of his friends wrote: ‘The Man was great, the message is greater.’