Poems and verse of Winifred Holtby / edited by Antony Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holtby, Winifred, 1898-1935.

Contributor:

Webb, Antony, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (89 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book was conceived after reading Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and Testament of Friendship. Winifred Holtby died very early after suffering from Bright's Disease - renal failure - aged only 37 in 1935. Into these years, she crammed more than most people achieve in an average life. She was a kind, gentle and very generous person; she had a strong belief in equality of sex, race and status, and was a very strong feminist. She became a Director of the feminist newspaper Time and Tide. ...

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; JEALOUS GHOST; BERKSHIRE RAIN; TREASURE IN HEAVEN; THE DEBT; ON SAD ASCENSION DAY; ONLY; QUESTION AND ANSWER; WHY SHOULD WE MORTALS; Q.M.S SCARBOROUGH; THE HARVEST FIELDS OF FAIR LORRAINE; MY PRAYER; NO MOURNING BY REQUEST; THE HARVEST AT ANLABY; THE QUEST; FLOODLIGHTS ON THE CANCER HOSPITAL; IGNIS FATUUS; THE SARABANDE; THE DEAD MAN; THE SHIP BUILDER; O DREAMY, GLOOMY, FRIENDLY TREES; VAGABOND LOVE; THE DIM BROWN WOODS ARE WEEPING; EPILOGUE TO ROMANCE; THE ROBBER; THE LAZY POET; EPIGRAM TO VERA BRITTAIN; FROZEN EARTH; INVOCATION TO TIME

ARABIATHE BENEFACTRESS; THE TRAVELLERS; HILLS OF THE TRANSVAAL; MANOA; A LADY IN A LITTLE GARDEN IN KENSINGTON; THERE'S A HALL IN BLOOMSBURY; GENTILITY; DRAMA; THE FOOLISH CLOCKS; PRAYER; SECRET DIPLOMACY AMONG OLYMPIANS; SEE I HAVE CAST MY NETS; PARTING IS NOT SORROWFUL; CELIA TO ROSALIND; WARNING; AVE, CEASAR!; THE GRUDGING GHOST; EPIGRAM TO THE END OF LOVE; TRAINS IN FRANCE; CRISIS; THE SYMPHONY CONCERT; HOUSE ON FIRE; ART AND SCIENCE; THE AEROPLANE; THE GHOST OF ELINOR WYLIE 1. ESCORT; THE GHOST OF ELINOR WYLIE II. CORONATION; THE GHOST OF ELINOR WYLIE III. PEACE; RESURRECTION; KINDLINESS

MALEDICTION AGAINST HUMILITYBEAUTY THE WAY OF THE WORLD; VALLEY OF THE SHADOWS; HAPPY ENDING; EPILOGUE

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4438-4561-2

OCLC:

827209033