| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Shards of Light; We are old age; Scratches on stone; Bluebells; The Funny Bone; Childhood; Lament for a game of Cowboys and Indians; Recollections of Nant Mill; More mice than men; 'Cousin Swift you will never be a poet'; Job Creation; Steel; The Art Critic; Transparence; The Letter Writer; Love Song; Silence; Civil Unrest; Battlefield; A Clergyman Muses; Poughkeepsie; Bird on a Twig; Solomon Smiles; A Day in Hand; Manawydan; The Peasant; A Dog's Life; To the Sea in a Sieve; Sacred Tree; The Courteous Dig; Wm. Jones Tremadoc. |
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NostalgiaThe Damned; Nid talwrn yw' r byd; A Moth at St James's; Brotherhood; Jacob's Coat; The Dead; Wise Man; Jews; Terror; Sunday School; The House Husband; John Elias 1830; Making butter -- old style; The Art of War; Marvao 2; The Colonel's Wife; Rooftop; The Best-Selling Poet; Montale Cabinera; Survival; The Boat; More; Negative Sermon; The Bard; Notes on a Page; Whispers; The Geese of Time; Provincial Song; Recipe for a Poet; Where they are gone; A Blessing; Wealth; Don't rush; Novelist's Notes; From a Far Country; Etruscan Shadows; Gododdin; Picking up signals; The Sag in the Cloth. |
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Holy OrdersGiving Up; The Thirties; Elinor getting on; Making a Difference; Hitler; Dictator; The Same Old Story; First Winter; A Political Cry; Freedom; Hen Gerdd; Limp between two languages; Lines on an Unsuccessful Politician; Poets in Orbit; To whom it may concern (1); To whom it may concern (2); A time before; Age; Belief; Governing Class; Floor Litter; Battling with the Ego; Homework; In Lazio; Inflammatory Stuff; Two of Everything; Alternative Routes; Being Rational; Domestic Scene; EP; Paddington; A Votive Moment; Another Route; Computing; Dictionaries; Everyone; A Rehearsal. |
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An ActressAgostino; The Stable; Honesty; Living In; Syllables; Taking Off; The Secret; The Fly; An Open Secret; The Marble Tomb; Bones; Lovesong; The Shadow Falls; Evening; Why water won't bend; Ultimate Discoveries; Youth and Age; Triumph of Old Age; The Old Couple; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
Shards of Light is a collection of poetic meditations, a compilation of reflections and philosophical contemplations written by the distinguished prize-winning novelist Emyr Humphreys, now in his hundredth year. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century.
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Poetry by individual poets. |
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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English poetry |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Other Form: |
Print version : 9781786833518 |
| ISBN |
9781786833525 (electronic bk.) |
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1786833522 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786833532 |
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1786833530 |
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9781786833549 |
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1786833549 |
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9781786833518 (pbk.) |
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