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Category: Poetry

A Man Of Dust: The Battles Of Keith Douglas

09/06/201419/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1940s

The Second World War is seldom feted for its poetry, despite producing poets whose talents rivalled those of the 1914-1918 conflict. Though he remained relatively unknown until the reissue of his work in 1964, of[…]

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Longing Under The Moon: The Pleasing Melancholy Of Attila József

11/04/201419/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1930s

On 11th April 1905, Attila József was born in Ferencváros, then a poor district of Budapest. His father, Áron József was a Romanian factory-worker and his mother, Borbála Pőcze, a Hungarian peasant girl; the couple already[…]

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Dreaming On The Verge Of Strife: Julian Bell And Rupert Brooke

04/02/201402/08/2017 Dr Caroline Potter1930s

A young Apollo, golden-haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life. – Frances Darwin Cornford Written after her first meeting with the poet, Frances Cornford’s pithy verse,[…]

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This site takes its name from Virginia Woolf's 1939 memoir. As an historian of the 20th Century, and of the Bloomsbury Group, I hope it not only says what happened, but also, ‘what the person was like to whom it happened.’

I am available for private research and writing commissions, please get in touch to discuss projects.

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