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matthew bevis untaught,|Bewildered,and alone’.^72 Like Smiles’s ‘rough gallant’, this ‘low-born’ but ‘untaught’ hero came to ...
fighting talk When Rudyard Kipling’s soldier in ‘The Instructor’ notes that ‘There’sone above is greater than us all’,^76 he ...
matthew bevis This emphasis on the ‘I’ lurking inside the ‘We’, and on a man who insists on beingrepresentative only of feeli ...
fighting talk This tone is frequently heard in the soldiers’ chorus, where the traditional sense ofthe form as a collective u ...
matthew bevis this perspective: ‘so-oldier’drags it out of him, for ‘so old’ is this soldier that his scepticism about war ha ...
fighting talk to a much more widespread phenomenon in poetry and culture: an increasingly modernnervousness about how and whe ...
matthew bevis audience...thanin any previous war’.^99 This is undoubtedly true, but two of the most distinguished war poets o ...
fighting talk Was out of work—had sold his traps— Noother reason why. ‘Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow dow ...
matthew bevis Far I hear the steady drummer Drumminglike a noise in dreams. Far and near and low and louder On the roads of e ...
fighting talk Geoffrey Hill has questioned the achievement of Wilfred Owen’s war poetry bysuggesting that it ‘applies a balm ...
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‘graver things...braver things’ Current work to reclaimTheDynasts, and the broader effort to draw attention to previously neg ...
ralph pite In some respects it is an alarmingly heroic story, even though it presents heroism asattained by seeing through re ...
‘graver things...braver things’ scepticism from innocence that was brought about by the Great War. According tothis model, Ha ...
ralph pite because he had seen others fall into them. When the Franco-Prussian War broke outin the summer of 1870, he was wor ...
‘graver things...braver things’ (the evidence of his intentness is everywhere), he was also concerned to intervene. Hisnovels ...
ralph pite Hardy congratulated George Gissing for attacking the bloodthirsty jingoism of such poemsin a review of 4 November ...
‘graver things...braver things’ ‘smalling slowly to the gray sea-line’, as ‘each significant red smoke-shaft pales’ and,plang ...
ralph pite pattern, following it and challenging it at the same time. Drummer Hodge is a furtherinstance of the same subtle r ...
‘graver things...braver things’ the troopships from Southampton.^26 Notuntil the war was over and Henniker had come safely ho ...
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