The Poems, short, long or just a few extracted lines stand up well to quoting aloud and the rhythms and rhymes often act as an aid to memorising. Classics and the Orient are much in vogue, obviously themes and compositions that held up well in Wavell’s view on life and poetry. Wavell was working at the War Office when Army officers refused to act against Ulster unionists in March 1914; the government was expecting Unionist paramilitary opposition to introduction of devolved government in Ireland. I think he ( Benito Mussolini) must do something, if he cannot make a graceful dive he will at least have to jump in somehow; he can hardly put on his dressing-gown and walk down the stairs again. Of Wavell, Auchinleck wrote: "In no sense do I wish to infer that I found an unsatisfactory situation on my arrival – far from it.

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These days, the lack of encouragement to schoolchildren to learn any poetry by heart means that a vast world of delight, fascination, wisdom and enjoyment is denied them – probably for their lifetimes. Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB , GCSI , GCIE , CMG , MC , KStJ , PC (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army. His letters to his father record his disgust at the government's behaviour in giving an ultimatum to officers – he had little doubt that the government had been planning to crush the Ulster Scots, whatever they later claimed. Operations in Eastern Theatre, Based on India, From March 1942 to December 31, 1942" published in "No. Allenby, A Study in Greatness: The Biography of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, G.

Other Men's Flowers was launched at a party on 23 June 1994 in a derelict sawmill close to Hoxton Square, East London, a centre for young British artists at that time. You can also hear her in Episode 9 of our podcast, ‘Well-Cultivated Words’, on the history of garden writing. If you read Other Men’s Flowers, I hope that you will conclude, as I did, that the wonderful heritage of poetry in English contributed to the making of an eminently civilized man, and both consoled and encouraged him in some pretty dark days. that has allowed and encouraged many hitherto solely image-based artists an opportunity to operate within the realms of ‘copy writing’, providing them with a platform from which to sound off any phrase, slang discovery, polemical essay or related literary form . The ‘book’ edition, of one hundred copies plus twenty artist’s proofs, consists of fifteen prints, three title pages and a colophon page signed by all the artists, presented in a box.

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Listening the other day to these opinions ping-ponging their way around a radio studio, far removed from the blood and sand, I thought of poor Lord Wavell, the penultimate viceroy of India, struggling in Delhi to divine the desires of his political masters in London. Late at night on 10 February 1942, Wavell prepared to board a flying boat, to fly from Singapore to Java. Churchill determined to relieve Wavell and after the failure in mid June of Operation Battleaxe, intended to relieve Tobruk, he told Wavell on 20 June that he was to be replaced by Auchinleck, whose attitude during the Iraq crisis had impressed him. Aristotle ordinarily heaps up a great number of other men’s opinions and beliefs, to compare them with his own, and to let us see how much he has gone beyond them, and how much nearer he approaches to the likelihood of truth; for truth is not to be judged by the authority and testimony of others; which made Epicurus religiously avoid quoting them in his writings. Other Men’s Flowers is a portfolio of text-based prints by fifteen London artists curated by Joshua Compston (1970-96).Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. As long as you appreciate the styles of the poems and extracts have a somewhat dated feel compared to reading a collection containing more modern poets and poet’s selections. His introduction to the first, his son’s introduction to the last (memorial edition) help define context of the man and the collection. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In Greece General Henry Wilson's Force W was unable to set up an adequate defence on the Greek mainland and were forced to withdraw to Crete, suffering 15,000 casualties and leaving behind all their heavy equipment and artillery.