Alas, not me

All literature enchants and delights us, recovers us from the 10,000 things that distract us. The unenchanted life is not worth living.

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Showing posts with label Siegfried Sassoon. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Siegfried Sassoon. Show all posts

21 November 2017

Quickened to Full Life by War (OFS ¶ 56) -- Living the Iliad

Julian Grenfell Julian Grenfell was a poet and soldier of the Great War, who embraced the idea of battle and the war even as he als...

30 August 2017

Review: Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War

Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War by Elizabeth Vandiver My rating: 5 of 5 star...

31 March 2016

And Yet Remain Evil -- Some Parallels in Tolkien and Sassoon

Recently I've been reading Siegfried Sassoon's The Memoirs of George Sherston , a series of three novels which tell of the title c...

22 March 2015

Tolkien Reading Day 2015 -- On Friendship

The other day, thanks to +Jeremiah Burns , I read a BBC article on a 98 year old woman whose mother gave her the middle name of 'Somm...

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