Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry

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Wavell was clearly an awkward customer. In his introduction, he apologises for his notes on the poems, saying "'The Notes' are not altogether my fault, the publisher asked for them." But he was far from a bluff fool who kept himself going on the march with a few verses of Kipling. He knew that a key to poetry's success - you might say its departed success - was its memorability, but he also knew that that wasn't its only quality. In 1961, 11 years after his death, TS Eliot wrote, "I do not pretend to be a judge of Wavell as a soldier . . . What I do know from personal acquaintance with the man, is that he was a great man. This is not a term I use easily ..." Wavell died on 24 May 1950 after a relapse following abdominal surgery on 5 May. [71] After his death, his body lay in state at the Tower of London where he had been Constable. A military funeral was held on 7 June 1950 with the funeral procession travelling along the Thames from the Tower to Westminster Pier and then to Westminster Abbey for the funeral service. [72] This was the first military funeral by river since that of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, in 1806. [73] The funeral was attended by the then Prime Minister Clement Attlee as well as Lord Halifax and fellow officers including Field Marshals Alanbrooke and Montgomery. Winston Churchill did not attend the service. [74] Neal Brown, Matthew Collings, Sarah Kent, Tracey Emin: I need art like I need God, exhibition catalogue, Jay Jopling and South London Gallery, London 1997

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The project has produced an exciting and innovative publication that intrinsically embodies the elegant but underused printing technique of letterpress … that has allowed and encouraged many hitherto solely image-based artists an opportunity to operate within the realms of 'copy writing', providing them with a platform from which to sound off any phrase, slang discovery, polemical essay or related literary form … the participants produced works that responded to the given brief of a letterpress printed text piece. (Quoted in Cooper, p.116.) By the end of the year, although still on half pay, Wavell had been designated to command 2nd Division and appointed a CB. [39] In March 1935, he took command of his division. [40] In August 1937 he was transferred to Palestine, where there was growing unrest, to be General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan [41] and was promoted to Lieutenant-General on 21 January 1938. [42] Open a book of rhetorical terms, and you will meet a lot of gnarly looking Greek and Latin words. Apodioxis and epizeuxis sound like diseases you wouldn’t especially want to catch. But, pilgrim, Wavell was given a number of assignments between the wars, though like many officers he had to accept a reduction in rank. In May 1920 he relinquished the temporary appointment of Brigadier-General, reverting to lieutenant-colonel. [28] In December 1921, he became an Assistant Adjutant General (AAG) at the War Office [29] and, having been promoted to full colonel on 3 June 1921, [30] he became a GSO1 in the Directorate of Military Operations in July 1923. [31] In 1947 Wavell returned to England and was made High Steward of Colchester. The same year, he was created Earl Wavell and given the additional title of Viscount Keren of Eritrea and Winchester. [67]a b c d e "Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell". Unit histories. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. 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. Here is persuasion overt, persuasion front and center. The advancing your argument. Any sentence you write should be pulling one or more of those levers; the best will do all three. Even apparent decoration works to a purpose — if a phrase is beautiful, funny or Prose does not scan like poetry. But it shares its effects. One of the most memorable lines in American history, for instance, is the clause in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

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Close, H. M. (1997). Attlee, Wavell, Mountbatten, and the Transfer of Power. National Book Foundation. By the way, thank you Dame Judy for prompting me to dip into a remarkable anthology. In the last few laughing seconds of the programme she may have whispered that she wanted none of the records but I like to think she would hang on to this book.Lord Wavell, British War Leader, Dies". Oxnard Press-Courier. 24 May 1950. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. Houterman, Hans; Koppes, Jeroen. "World War II Unit Histories and Officers". Archived from the original on 3 December 2008 . Retrieved 20 December 2008. In December 1915, after he had recovered, Wavell was returned to General HQ in France as a GSO2. [22] He was promoted to the substantive rank of major on 8 May 1916. [23] In October 1916 Wavell was graded General Staff Officer Grade 1 (GSO1) as an acting lieutenant-colonel, [24] and was then assigned as a liaison officer to the Russian Army in the Caucasus. [9] In June 1917, he was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel [25] and continued to work as a staff officer (GSO1), [26] as liaison officer with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force headquarters. [9] Earl Wavell Dies in 10-Hour Fight With Terrorists". The Calgary Herald. 26 December 1953. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021 . Retrieved 24 August 2014. Newspaper clippings about Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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epistrophe— where the repetition comes at the end rather than the beginning of a sentence. But repetition applies at a subtler level, too. The memorable or resonant phrase, for instance, is often Operations in The Middle East from 7th February 1941 to 15th July 1941", submitted 5 September 1941 published in "No. 37638". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 July 1946. pp.3423–3444.Wavell, Archibald Percival Wavell (1973). Wavell: The Viceroy's Journal. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192117236. will want to tell you Y… Big Tobacco will want to tell you Z. But there’s something you can tell Big Tobacco…” Its conclusion can be given a sense of roundness and inevitability with