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Marlborough and other poems - Charles Hamilton Sorley
Charles Hamilton Sorley
Marlborough and other poems
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
BARBURY CAMP
STONES
EAST KENNET CHURCH AT EVENING
AUTUMN DAWN
RETURN
RICHARD JEFFERIES
J. B.
THE OTHER WISE MAN
MARLBOROUGH
LE REVENANT
LOST
RAIN
A TALE OF TWO CAREERS
WHAT YOU WILL
A CALL TO ACTION
PEACE
THE RIVER
THE SEEKERS
ROOKS
ROOKS (II)
THE SONG OF THE UNGIRT RUNNERS
GERMAN RAIN
BRAND
PEER GYNT
TO POETS
IF I HAVE SUFFERED PAIN
WHOM THEREFORE WE IGNORANTLY WORSHIP
DEUS LOQUITUR
EXPECTANS EXPECTAVI
ALL THE HILLS AND VALES ALONG
TO GERMANY
A HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION MITES WE GO
TWO SONNETS
A SONNET
THERE IS SUCH CHANGE IN ALL THOSE FIELDS
I HAVE NOT BROUGHT MY ODYSSEY
IN MEMORIAM S. C. W., V.C.
BEHIND THE LINES
ILLUSTRATIONS IN PROSE
PREFACE
Table of Contents
The call for a new edition of these poems gives an opportunity for issuing them in a form which is intended to be definitive.
They are now arranged in four groups according to subject. It is true that all of them perhaps might be described by the title of one of these groups, as poems of life and thought. But some owe their inspiration directly to nature—to the wind-swept downs which the author loved and which he looked upon as wise
as well as wide
; a few reflect the experiences of school life; yet others show how his spirit faced the great adventure of war and death. Within each group the poems are printed, as nearly as may be, in the order of their composition, the title-poem being restored to its proper chronological place. When the date, exact or approximate, is known, it has been given; in those cases in which the date specifies the day of the month, it has been taken from the author's manuscript.
A single piece of imaginative prose is included amongst the poems. Other passages of prose were added to the third edition with the view of illustrating ideas occurring in the poems and prominent in the author's mind. With the exception of a few sentences from an early essay, these prose passages are all taken from familiar letters. To the present edition a few notes have been appended, in which some topical allusions are explained and what is known about the origin of the separate pieces is told.
The frontispiece is from a drawing in chalks by Mr Cecil Jameson.
Of the author personally, and of what he was to his family and his friends, I do not speak. Yet I may quote the phrase used by a German lady in whose house he had been living for three months. The time with him,
she wrote, was like a holiday and a feast-day.
Many have felt what she put into words: though it was the graver moods of his mind that, for the most part, sought expression in his poems. I may also put on record here the main facts concerning his short life.
He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19th May 1895. His father was then a professor in the University of Aberdeen, and he was of Scottish descent on both sides. From 1900 onwards his home was in Cambridge. He was educated at Marlborough College, which he entered in September 1908 and left in December 1913, after obtaining a scholarship at University College, Oxford. Owing to the war he never went into residence at the University. After leaving school he spent a little more than six
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