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4 days ago · UD at Inside Higher Ed About Margaret Soltan Other Writings Subscribe to UD's Feeds. ← Previous Post: Hearth and Home in UD’s ‘thesda! Memorial: From Siegfried Sassoon’s “Prelude: The Troops”. O my brave brown companions, when your soulsFlock silently away, and the eyeless deadShame the wild beast of battle on the ridge,Death will ...
5 days ago · London, Penguin, 2008, ISBN: 9780140123081; 256pp.; Price: £8.99. I was 16 or 17 when I first read Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, and 26 when I completed my PhD on shell shock in First World War Britain. It would be doing more than one of my university lecturers, as well as Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, a disservice to say that I ended ...
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5 days ago · Memory. When I was young my heart and head were light, And I was gay and feckless as a colt. Out in the fields, with morning in the may, Wind on the grass, wings in the orchard bloom. O thrilling sweet, my joy, when life was free. And all the paths led on from hawthorn- time. Across the carolling meadows into June.
4 days ago · To dance with dream -enfranchised feet. In me the cave-man clasps the seer, And garlanded Apollo goes. Chanting to Abraham-s deaf ear. In me the tiger sniffs the rose. Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble, Since there your elements assemble. Siegfried Sassoon. Rate:
4 days ago · The Rear-guard. (Hindenburg Line, April 1917.) Groping along the tunnel, step by step, He winked his prying torch with patching glare. From side to side, and sniffed the unwholesome air. Tins, boxes, bottles, shapes too vague to know, A mirror smashed, the mattress from a bed; And he, exploring fifty feet below. The rosy gloom of battle overhead.
4 days ago · The authors trace the Sassoon family back to 18th-century Baghdad, where already Sheikh Sason ben Saleh was a prominent member of the large and important Jewish community in that city. They follow the career of the Sheikh’s second son, David, who eventually fled from Baghdad during the politically difficult reign of Daud Pasha and settled in ...
3 days ago · autobiography, the biography of oneself narrated by oneself. Autobiographical works can take many forms, from the intimate writings made during life that were not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and reminiscences) to a formal book-length autobiography. Formal autobiographies offer a special ...
