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 peter mcdonald In ‘Plant and Phantom’, for example, written in September 1940, the War can be feltbehind the poet’s abstract ...

louis macneice’s war  of Love’ are parts of an imperfectly accommodated life, in which happiness is to becompromised by a sta ...

 peter mcdonald is a character for whom time is almost up, and seems to be under sentence of death:‘Round his neck there come ...

louis macneice’s war  And mad to possess the unpossessable sea Asa man in spring desires to die in woman.^28 ‘Failure’ is the ...

 peter mcdonald definition, an exercise in providing material of common interest, intended to bind togethera listening public ...

louis macneice’s war  ‘‘Let her come down. Let them all go. Write them all off. Stone walls do not a city make.’’’^33 Again, ...

 peter mcdonald by the trolls—something above and beyond, or even below and aside from the Luftwaffe—which makes its comicall ...

louis macneice’s war  Captions; the groundswell of the pavement, steady Asfate, rose up and caught him, rolled him below A tr ...

 peter mcdonald romp and scurry about’, and then delivers the observation that ‘This is a bit like us’,comparing the ‘destroy ...

louis macneice’s war  generated by the continually augmented nature of the information and recollection thatflood through the ...

 peter mcdonald the only powerful section of ‘The Kingdom’, but here the Christianity is simply contemplated,and perhaps admi ...

louis macneice’s war  Front looks harder and more searchingly at issues of complicity and guilt than much ofthe writing of it ...

 peter mcdonald Here, the reader (who is not—and certainly notonly—an Irish one) is told twice to ‘Look into your heart’, and ...

louis macneice’s war  ‘we’ and ‘he’ prove to be interdependent: the poetry spells out an intricate series of consequentialkno ...

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sidney keyes in historical perspective  for, as I propose to do here; so has Drummond Allison, killed in Italy in 1943, whose ...

 geoffrey hill The creative artist in him never came into contact with human beings, but lived in the crazy hauntedcountry of ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  ‘curious little trough’. Clare is Thomson’s and Cowper’s proletarian inheritor, and b ...

 geoffrey hill bright|Leavesof the fire’; ‘Or when the summer flashed and rocketed|Between green sedges like a kingfisher’; ‘ ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  Of the gaunt ridge, or you’ll hear his shout Rollingamong the screes, he being a boy ...