Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry

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Wavell had derived the phrase from a well-known quotation attributed to French moralist Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-92), 'I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread which binds them is my own' (quoted in Cooper, p. I had fool­ishly imagined that, even if my readers did not know Montaigne – ‘I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own’ – they would at least recognize the play on the title of one of the great poetry anthologies of the twentieth century. Apart from a short period unemployed on half pay in 1926, [32] [33] Wavell continued to hold GSO1 appointments, latterly in the 3rd Infantry Division, until July 1930 when he was given command of 6th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier. Cape sent a humiliating letter of rejection in which the general's choice was described as "familiar school recitations advancing in close formation". It then describes the last day the three teenagers spent together, aged eighteen, in 1981 and goes on to a shocking conclusion: ‘Three days latter [sic] Joe’s body was washed up on Margate beach – puffy bloated unrecognisable – His black skin had turned white – and apparently his Fingers nails [sic] had been smashed and every bone in his hands had been broken –’.

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The individual artists used different types of paper, all of the same size, some working in landscape and others in portrait format. The artist's individual title for this image is Adore >< Abhor, using the mathematical symbols for 'greater than' and 'less than' also evoked by the textual patterning at top and bottom of the page.Other Men’s Flowers was launched at a party on 23 June 1994 in a derelict sawmill close to Hoxton Square, East London, a centre for young British artists at that time. If a piece of writing feels like a unit, it lends its argument an impression, however spurious, of coherence. He served as Commander-in-Chief, India, from July 1941 until June 1943 (apart from a brief tour as Commander of American-British-Dutch-Australian Command) and then served as Viceroy of India until his retirement in February 1947. The Viceroy Lord Linlithgow sent a signal criticising the conduct of the field commanders to Churchill who forwarded it to Wavell together with an offer to send Harold Alexander, who had commanded the rearguard at Dunkirk. Let us be clear about three facts: First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman.

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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. The 'book' edition, of one hundred copies plus twenty artist's proofs, consists of fifteen prints, three title pages and a colophon page signed by all the artists, presented in a box.Wavell’s son wrote in the introduction to the 1952 memorial edition: In the brief respite of six months between staving off the German assault on the Middle East in the Spring of 1941, and turning to meet the challenge of Japan at the end of the year, my father found time to list his favourite poems and explain his choice in the prefaces to each section.

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Despite the extreme pressures under which he laboured during the Second World War, Wavell managed to put together Other Men’s Flowers, which was published by Jonathan Cape. this first paperback edition contains not only Lord Wavell's own introduction and annotations, but also the introduction written by his son, to whom the book was originally dedicated".Wavell was working at the War Office when Army officers refused to act against Ulster unionists in March 1914; the government was expecting Unionist paramilitary opposition to introduction of devolved government in Ireland. It’s time for a president who cares more about America’s workers than he does about America’s union bosses.