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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 Wilfred Owen. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Wilfred Owen. 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...

11 February 2016

"We will burn like heathen kings before ever a ship sailed hither from the West." (RK 5.iv.825)

In my recent Abraham, Wilfred, and John at The Pyre of Denethor ( RK 6.vii.850-57) we saw how Tolkien and Owen each used Genesis 22 t...

01 December 2015

Abraham, Wilfred, and John at the Pyre of Denethor (RK 5.vii.850-57)

The Parable of the Young Man and the Old So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as the...

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