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Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry

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He was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres of 1915, losing his left eye [20] and winning the Military Cross. Dawn was theirs,/ And sunset, and the colours of the earth’) Wavell noted: ‘I can well remember Lord Allenby repeating this poem to me shortly after he had heard the news that his only son, a boy of great promise, had been killed in action. Alexander took command of Allied land forces in Burma in early March [56] with William Slim arriving shortly afterwards from commanding a division in Iraq to take command of its principal formation, Burma Corps.

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Where you do find a predictable poet, the poem chosen is often not the most obvious one: no ‘Goblin Market’ from Christina Rossetti, no ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ from W. The full version of this article is only available to subscribers to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly. On 23 February British forces in Burma had suffered a serious setback when Major-General Jackie Smyth's decision to destroy the bridge over the Sittang river to prevent the enemy crossing had resulted in most of his division being trapped on the wrong side of the river. Churchill, with whom he never got along, said that meeting him was like being "in the presence of the chairman of a golf club".But what makes Montaigne’s meditation so incisive — and such an urgently necessary fine-tuning of how we think of “curation” today — is precisely the emphasis on the thread. Third voice: "No, a timetable would make quitting even more dangerous - there must be no mention of timetables. We are in this very like him, who having need of fire, went to a neighbor’s house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any with him home… What good does it do us to have the stomach full of meat, if it do not digest, if it be not incorporated with us, if it does not nourish and support us? 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.

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The colophon page, on which the artists, curator, printers and publishers are named and the editions described, bears the circled logo ‘OMF’ in red. After some initial success the Japanese counter-attacked, and by March 1943 the position was untenable, and the remnants of the attacking force were withdrawn.

the participants produced works that responded to the given brief of a letterpress printed text piece. If the classical orators have modern counterparts in the realm of the written word, pre-eminent among those counterparts are the authors of opinion pieces. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. of setting two terms in opposition, are ways of labeling what any prose stylist does by habit and instinct.

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Wavell had derived the phrase from a well-known quotation attributed to French moralist Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-92), ‘I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread which binds them is my own’ (quoted in Cooper, p.

St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot, an Army church, contains a large wooden plaque dedicated to Lord Wavell. A light touch is best: a thunderous 15-sentence run of anaphora might not be appropriate for an article on traffic measures in suburban New Jersey.

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But long before our contemporary conceptions of how creativity works, French Renaissance polymath and proto-blogger Michel de Montaigne (February 28, 1533–September 13, 1592) articulated this magpielike quality of the mind, so very central to ideation. Subsequently, on 15 February 1940, to reflect the broadening of his oversight responsibilities to include East Africa, Greece and the Balkans, his title was changed to Commander-in-Chief Middle East. Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, saw Iraq as vital to Britain's strategic interests and in early May, under heavy pressure from London, Wavell agreed to send a division-sized force across the desert from Palestine to relieve the besieged British air base at Habbaniya and to assume overall control of troops in Iraq.Compston took the title, Other Men's Flowers, from an anthology of wartime poetry compiled by Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell (1883-1950) of the same title (published 1944). This is not a time to pick out any of my favourite poems or poets but there are plenty there to make it an anthology worth keeping. The situation was retrieved only after Fleming lobbied a Cape director, Rupert Hart-Davis, who reproved the publisher by telling him his letter was "tantamount to a sock on the jaw" to a shy man who had delivered "the complete bones of a tremendously saleable book".

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