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 stan smith what was meant. The Civil War which began in July 1936 with General Franco’s militaryrevolt against the newly ele ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  half a century later, ‘was conscripted into politicsby Hitler’: young writers espoused c ...

 stan smith Lessens’,^12 writtenwhile he was still at Cambridge, was posthumously transformed by Lehmann into a poem about th ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  As the war progressed, the contradictions between illusion and reality became moreobviou ...

 stan smith on a muscular physicality is symptomatic of an age in which the clash of mas- culinitieswas central to the politi ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  In Spain, Auden wrote, ‘our thoughts have bodies’.^22 Communistideology, reinforced by t ...

 stan smith the externalized ‘you’ of the last stanza, the self realized as an other to those others. Wintringham’s‘British M ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  Then let my private battle with my nerves, Thefear of pain whose pain survives, Thelovet ...

 stan smith adjective refuses to specify its referent: isitthe romantic hubris of the two lovers, or the proper pride of the ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  ‘‘I’’...proppedup’ in bed.^31 ‘Of course’, the poem begins, ‘the entire effort is to put ...

 stan smith I have an appointment with a bullet Atseventeen hours less a split second —And I shall not be late.^35 Perhaps in ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  depersonalizations, recalling the ‘cold hillside’ on which Keats’s knight-at-arms lies d ...

 stan smith reference to ‘The inexhaustible anger of the guns’^42 )and ‘Strange Meeting’. In hisLondon Review of Booksmemoir, ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  peace’, in an image of comradeship which nevertheless fails to console a mind that is‘pa ...

 stan smith are the mountains where death waits, ‘close at hand’, to be coped with only by mythologizingexperience, evoking t ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  ‘Newsreel’, which appears only a page after this inOverturesto Death,deploysan unexpecte ...

 stan smith breaks, wondering ‘what the morning|Paperwill say...for the morning already|Is with us, the day is to-day’.^50 Th ...

‘what the dawn will bring to light’  of the Crucifixion, so section XXIII recalls that moment of backsliding betrayal afterit ...