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War Poets Anthology
,The War Poets An Anthology if the War Poetry -of the 20th Century . Edited with :an Introduction by Oscar Williams \\ . [, l , The]ohn Day Company • New York Virginia Commonwealth Univers~ty library :,\ " . P/1" I::}J$ Contents COPYRIGHT, 1945, BY OSCAR WILLIAMS W5~" , Introduction 3 All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission. ,,Comments by the Poets. 12 Poems must not be reprinted without permission E. E. Cummings, 12; Geoffrey Grigson, 13; John Mani from the poets, their publishers or theiro agents. fold, 14; Donald Stau!fer, 15; Vernon Watkins, 16; Mark Van Doren, 17; Julian Symons, 17; Richard Eberhart, 18; Henry Treece, 20; Frederic Prokosch, ,21; Selden Rod Second Impression man, 22; Wallace Stevens, 23; Alan Ross, 24; Muriel Rukeyser, '25; Edwin Muir, 26; Karl Shapiro, 26; Hubert Creekmore, 27; Gavin Ewart, 28; John Pudney, 29; John Be"yman,29. , , , ' ;,THOMAS HARDY S POEM ON THE TURN OF THE . I CENTURY: The Darkling Thrush 31 ,'1 THE POETRY OF WORLD WAR I The Pity of It,' by THOMAs HARDY 33 WILFRED OWEN , Greater Love, 35; Arms and the Boy, 35; Inspection, 36; Anthem for Doomed Youth, 36; Dulce Et Decorum Est 37; Exposure, 38; Disabled,. 39; The Show, 40; Memai Cases, 41; Insensibility, 42; A Terre, 44; Strange Meeting 46. ' RUPERT BROOKE The Soldier; 48; The Great Lover, 48. E. E. CUMMINGS I Sing of Olaf, 51; my sweet old etcetera, 52. ROBERT GRAVES Recalling War, 54; Defeat of the Rebels, 55. HERBERT READ The End of a War, 56. -
Sidney Keyes: the War-Poet Who 'Groped for Death'
PINAKI ROY Sidney Keyes: The War-Poet Who ‘Groped For Death’ f the Second World War (1939-45) was marked by the unforeseen annihilation of human beings—with approximately 60 million military and civilian deaths (Mercatante 3)—the second global belligerence was also marked by an Iunforeseen scarcity in literary commemoration of the all-destructive belligerence. Unlike the First World War (1914-18) memories of which were recorded mellifluously by numerous efficient poets from both the sides of the Triple Entente and Central Powers, the period of the Second World War witnessed so limited a publication of war-writing in its early stages that the Anglo-Irish litterateur Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-72), then working as a publications-editor at the English Ministry of Information, was galvanised into publishing “Where are the War Poets?” in Penguin New Writing of February 1941, exasperatedly writing: ‘They who in folly or mere greed / Enslaved religion, markets, laws, / Borrow our language now and bid / Us to speak up in freedom’s cause. / It is the logic of our times, / No subject for immortal verse—/ That we who lived by honest dreams / Defend the bad against the worse’. Significantly, while millions of Europeans and Americans enthusiastically enlisted themselves to serve in the Great War and its leaders were principally motivated by the ideas of patriotism, courage, and ancient chivalric codes of conduct, the 1939-45 combat occurred amidst the selfishness of politicians, confusing international politics, and, as William Shirer notes, by unsubstantiated feelings of defeatism among world powers like England and France, who could have deterred the offensive Nazis at the very onset of hostilities (795-813). -
CDHS Newsletter Oct 2019
CAMPERDOWN & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. CAMPERDOWNHISTORY.ORG.AU PAST MATTERS [email protected] P.O.BOX 243 CAMPERDOWN VIC, 3260 VOLUME 29 - NO. 4 EMAIL ISSN: 2209-2617 INCORPORATION NO: A0020588V October 2019 Camperdown Heritage Centre 241 Manifold St., Camperdown, Victoria 3260 Postal Address: PO Box 243, Camperdown, Vic 3260 [email protected] camperdownhistory.org.au facebook/camperdownhistory Opening Hours: Tuesdays 10am-3pm HELLO TO ALL OF OUR MEMBERS & 1st Sunday of month ACQUISITIONS FROM “TALINDERT” WELCOMED (Market Day) 10am-3pm or by appointment. The Camperdown Heritage Centre recently acquired a number of items of significant local importance from the historic property “Talindert “ on President: the eastern outskirts of Camperdown. Rob Wuchatsch The items were generously donated ing of a 33 room two-storey stucco Vice President: by Mrs Sally Emanuel, a daughter of and brick mansion to a design by Bob Lambell the late Sir Chester and Lady Agnes Colac architect, Alexander Hamilton. Secretary: Manifold. Talindert homestead and stables Maree Belyea remain virtually intact and in near Treasurer: Talindert, which has very recently original condition. Jan Whamond been sold, was originally part of the Committee: “Purrumbete” run and has always Following the death of J.C. Manifold, Bob Lambell been held by the Manifold family. Talindert was taken over by his only HC Co-ordinator Its occupants have made remark- son, Thomas Chester Manifold. Gillian Senior able contributions to public life at the Sir (Thomas) Chester Manifold KBE Newsletter & State and National levels. (1897 - 1979) was a prominent Communications member of the Victorian Racing com- Ray Watson The Manifold brothers - John, Peter munity and a successful racehorse Photographs and Thomas, were the first Europe- owner and breeder. -
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Kent Academic Repository Full text document (pdf) Citation for published version Walters, Rosemary Anne (2020) Zig Zag: Cultures in Common and the Poetry of Charles Causley. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent, University of Kent. DOI Link to record in KAR https://kar.kent.ac.uk/81342/ Document Version UNSPECIFIED Copyright & reuse Content in the Kent Academic Repository is made available for research purposes. Unless otherwise stated all content is protected by copyright and in the absence of an open licence (eg Creative Commons), permissions for further reuse of content should be sought from the publisher, author or other copyright holder. Versions of research The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record. Enquiries For any further enquiries regarding the licence status of this document, please contact: [email protected] If you believe this document infringes copyright then please contact the KAR admin team with the take-down information provided at http://kar.kent.ac.uk/contact.html ZIG ZAG: ‘CULTURES IN COMMON’ AND THE POETRY OF CHARLES CAUSLEY Doctor of Philosophy: University of Kent Revised April 2020 Rosemary Anne Walters (Student ID: 15909337) Word Count: 82,402 1 Copyright Statement This thesis is © 2020 Dr Rosemary Walters and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International Licence “Quotations from the letters from Charles Causley © 2020 Bruce Hunter” Causley’s work is © of his literary estate. -
Yorkshire Poetry, 1954-2019: Language, Identity, Crisis
YORKSHIRE POETRY, 1954-2019: LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, CRISIS Kyra Leigh Piperides Jaques, BA (Hons) and MA, (Hull) PhD University of York English & Related Literature October 2019 This work was supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/L503848/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. ABSTRACT This thesis explores the writing of a large selection of twentieth- and twenty-first- century East and West Yorkshire poets, making a case for Yorkshire as a poetic place. The study begins with Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes, and concludes with Simon Armitage, Sean O’Brien and Matt Abbott’s contemporary responses to the EU Referendum. Aside from arguing the significance of Yorkshire poetry within the British literary landscape, it presents poetry as a central form for the region’s writers to represent their place, with a particular focus on Yorkshire’s languages, its identities and its crises. Among its original points of analysis, this thesis redefines the narrative position of Larkin and scrutinizes the linguistic choices of Hughes; at the same time, it identifies and explains the roots and parameters of a fascinating new subgenre that is emerging in contemporary West Yorkshire poetry. This study situates its poems in place whilst identifying the distinct physical and social geographies that exist, in different ways, throughout East and West Yorkshire poetry. Of course, it interrogates the overarching themes that unite the two regions too, with emphasis on the political and historic events that affected the region and its poets, alongside the recurring insistence of social class throughout many of the poems studied here. -
Biographical Information
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ADAMS, Glenda (1940- ) b Sydney, moved to New York to write and study 1964; 2 vols short fiction, 2 novels including Hottest Night of the Century (1979) and Dancing on Coral (1986); Miles Franklin Award 1988. ADAMSON, Robert (1943- ) spent several periods of youth in gaols; 8 vols poetry; leading figure in 'New Australian Poetry' movement, editor New Poetry in early 1970s. ANDERSON, Ethel (1883-1958) b England, educated Sydney, lived in India; 2 vols poetry, 2 essay collections, 3 vols short fiction, including At Parramatta (1956). ANDERSON, Jessica (1925- ) 5 novels, including Tirra Lirra by the River (1978), 2 vols short fiction, including Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories (1987); Miles Franklin Award 1978, 1980, NSW Premier's Award 1980. AsTLEY, Thea (1925- ) teacher, novelist, writer of short fiction, editor; 10 novels, including A Kindness Cup (1974), 2 vols short fiction, including It's Raining in Mango (1987); 3 times winner Miles Franklin Award, Steele Rudd Award 1988. ATKINSON, Caroline (1834-72) first Australian-born woman novelist; 2 novels, including Gertrude the Emigrant (1857). BAIL, Murray (1941- ) 1 vol. short fiction, 2 novels, Homesickness (1980) and Holden's Performance (1987); National Book Council Award, Age Book of the Year Award 1980, Victorian Premier's Award 1988. BANDLER, Faith (1918- ) b Murwillumbah, father a Vanuatuan; 2 semi autobiographical novels, Wacvie (1977) and Welou My Brother (1984); strongly identified with struggle for Aboriginal rights. BAYNTON, Barbara (1857-1929) b Scone, NSW; 1 vol. short fiction, Bush Studies (1902), 1 novel; after 1904 alternated residence between Australia and England. -
Chapter 1 Douglas Stewart
CHAPTER 1 DOUGLAS STEWART: THE EARLY YEARS 1925-1938 Throughout the many scholarly works that focus on Stewart’s place in Australian literature, the word that recurs in respect of Douglas Stewart’s creative work is ‘versatile’. One of its first appearances is in Nancy Keesing’s Douglas Stewart, which begins with the precise statement: ‘Douglas Stewart is the most versatile writer in Australia today ⎯ perhaps the most versatile who ever lived in this country. He is a poet whose poetry and nature as a poet are central to everything in which he excels’.93 Stewart was not only a poet whose early philosophy that the closer one moves towards nature the closer one moves towards the spirit of the earth, developed as a line of continuity which contributed to his total philosophy; this chapter focuses on Stewart’s life and poetic ambition in New Zealand until his move to Australia as an expatriate in 1938. As a mature poet he was then concerned to apply this pantheism to modern responses regarding humans and their experiences. The purpose of the introductory part of this chapter is to clarify the theme of the dissertation ⎯ Douglas Stewart’s creative impulse; the second part involves a discussion of the poet’s visit to England where he met poets Powys and Blunden. At this time he also journeyed to his ancestral home in Scotland. Upon his return to Australia in 1938 he was offered a position with Cecil Mann at the Bulletin. Stewart was also a distinguished verse dramatist, a successful editor, particularly of the Red Page of the Bulletin from 1940 to 1960,94 and a participant of some repute in journalism and publishing. -
Wilfred Owen's Missing Folio
APPENDIX: WILFRED OWEN'S MISSING FOLIO On or about 20 l\lay 1918, having juSt returned from a visit to Robert Ross in London, Wilfred Owen wrotc to his mother from Ripon, having undertaken there a major revision of all his work to that date. Significantly, he said in that letter, 'The upshot is that I am to have my work typed at once, and send it to Heinemann, who is certain 10 send it to Ross to read for him!!' No such folio of typed script has been discovered, but it is inconcei .... able that he failed to compile this for typing, particularly as the only presently known manuscripts of so many poems are of unfinished drafts, most particularly in the instance of 'Strange Meeting'. This poem's surviving manuscripts clearly demonstrate its unfinished state; they themselves comprise the prime evidence that they do not give us a fair copy of a,lintJliseti text. Those that survive have amendarions which are arguably alterna/it'( or additional, rather than ./inal. Further, there is strong evidence that the generally acknowledged version's 44 lines are far short of what Owen actually wrote. In a pre-publication list he tabulated between J\lay and July "1918, 'Strange J\[eeting' is, most importantly, listed as categorically finished and, as such, comprised/our pages of text in its./inished state. These facts are specifically and very methodically noted by Wilfred Owen in this handwritten list. None of the surviving manuscripts gives us the poem's text on more than two pages. It is therefore the case that either the whole of a./Qur page manuscript has been lost or, at the very least. -
U DTFG Papers of Tony F. Griffin C.1940S-2016
Hull History Centre: Papers of Tony F. Griffin U DTFG Papers of Tony F. Griffin c.1940s-2016 Accession number: 2017/11 Biographical Background: Tony F. Griffin was born on 11 October 1949 in Richmond, Surrey. He lived predominantly in Hull and Leeds. He opened and ran a book shop in Leeds, Griffin's Books, where he also established a series of poetry readings and was later involved in Flux Gallery Press. He first gained attention as a poet after his work was included in the anthology A Rumoured City: New Poets from Hull (1982), which also contained work by Douglas Dunn and Peter Didsbury amongst others. Around this time, he also contributed poems to various national periodicals on the advice of Philip Larkin. His first major collection of poetry, Cider Days, was published in 1990, followed by his second major book, Kavita, in 2003. In 2010, his work was included in the sequel to Douglas Dunn's 1982 anthology, Old City, New Rumours: A Hull Anthology, and in the same year, a festschrift titled Born Into An Unquiet was published to mark Griffin's 60th birthday. In 2013, Tricycle Songs was published by Flux Gallery Press and in the following year, a collection of previously unpublished poems was printed under the title Moving from the South. At the time of his death on 27 April 2016, he was working with Jules Smith on a project about the Hull Poets called Librarians and Barbarians. Custodial history: Donated Jun 2017 Description: This collection includes poetry files, poetry notebooks, poetry publications, correspondence files, items relating to the shop ‘Griffin’s Books’, and personal papers relating to Tony F. -
Graves and Resurrections
The Gryphon P»TOM „ 1895 D> ™ “ 1948 THE JOURNAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Contents page ,6 On B e in g a St u d e n t 11 Hamlet and the Critics Donald Austin Jazz Past and Present S* ^ 14 p W. Platten 19 ^hkistm\s Eve at Grannie’s Bill Moody 24 WrEkin r . A. Hodge* 25 About M yself Harry Ward 27 M.H. 29 ERRATA. 30-36 r Article Weaver tn W 38 forward to next issue! “ “ Carfied 43 Read 46 N.U.S. Arts Supplement, pp. 29 to 36. 47 T he N e w W aste L a n d J The Origins of Leeds u p B „ k e , 51 54 t _ J T. Boorman Lope de V e g a Reviews : Graves and R esurrections ^ 57 The Free Mind Margaret Allen ^ A rt M .H. Charles Groves on Sibelius and wicz 60 THE S e v e n S y m p h o n i e s k . U . 6 1 -6 2 L etter s to th e E ditoh iVofes on some of our Contributors < DONALD AUSTIN is a So; Education Department an e x S ^ n<W in the ° f the ° otre F ar Niente Snd P res»len t ALDRED F. BARKER, Textil c .1884-1888, a constant eo n l ”* at this U™ ity friend of the University. " t0 this and DENNIS BROWN is a 4th Y „ * »«* cw »„ david haw is A,tl"ic’ c~» C»»,” l“ u. I PHILIP MITCHFt r „ " ‘ tends to teach. -
Poetry in the Natural World
Year 9 Poetry Anthology (Summer 2018 onwards) Poetry in the natural world Brookvale Groby Learning Campus: Faculty of English, Media & Literacy ABE Summer 2018 Poetry in the natural world 'Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.' – Dylan Thomas The theme of nature and the natural world has been recurring inspiration for poets ever since the first poems were written thousands of years ago. The Greek poet Theocritus began writing about rural life in his ‘idylls’ (a poem or piece of short prose about rustic life) in the third century BCE. No matter what country or era, the changes in landscape, weather, seasons and natural phenomenon have been an inescapable part of the history of poetry. How do I read a poem? 'There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.' – Robert Frost The very first thing that a poem will do is to make you feel something. That ‘something’ may be joy, sadness, frustration, pity – even confusion – but the important thing is that it makes a connection. It may take several readings to make that connection, but that’s OK. The results we get from spending time with a poem is worth the hard work. -
A Longer, More In-Depth Description of Sir James Darling's
Please note, there are four main levels of expansion of Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition. The presentation that goes into all Jeremy’s explanations of the human condition at great length is provided in Freedom Expanded*. Then there is Jeremy’s definitive presentation of his explanation in his2016 book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition*, which is the recommended text to read for a comprehensive understanding of his treatise. There is also the short, condensed version of FREEDOM in the booklet Transform Your Life And Save The World*. Finally there are the Freedom Essays* which present all the main explanations in FREEDOM in wonderfully illustrated bite-sized portions. As well as these presentations there are various documents that deal with particular aspects of Jeremy’s treatise and of the World Transformation Movement that promotes that understanding. The contents of earlier books and publications about Jeremy’s treatise, including this essay, will in time be fully absorbed into and covered by the above presentations. A longer, more in-depth description of Sir James Darling’s Vision of Fostering the Ability to Undertake the ‘Paramount’ Task of Solving the Human Condition in Order to ‘Save the World’ Compiled by Jeremy Griffith To affirm the crucial importance of theWTM ’s work of addressing the human condition we present a speech given by Sir James Darling, former Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (today’s Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or ABC), the organisation that did all it could to misrepresent, vilify and destroy this all- important work. From this address, it can be imagined how deeply, deeply impressed, interested in and encouraging of our work a Darling-led ABC would have been.