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... hero is engaging but absurd . The attempts of Fab- rice in La Chartreuse de Parme to find and take part in the battle of Waterloo , his bewildered bumbling around the edges , his naïve enquiry ' Have I taken part in a real battle ...
... hero is engaging but absurd . The attempts of Fab- rice in La Chartreuse de Parme to find and take part in the battle of Waterloo , his bewildered bumbling around the edges , his naïve enquiry ' Have I taken part in a real battle ...
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... hero . . . That curtain may have fallen , but it was to rise and fall again . It is a commonplace that traditions die hard , and none die harder than military ones . Leaving Oxford in 1940 to join a cavalry regi- ment , Keith Douglas ...
... hero . . . That curtain may have fallen , but it was to rise and fall again . It is a commonplace that traditions die hard , and none die harder than military ones . Leaving Oxford in 1940 to join a cavalry regi- ment , Keith Douglas ...
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... heroes , and not weep ? Unicorns , almost . For they are fading into two legends in which their stupidity and chivalry are celebrated ; the fool and the hero will be immortals . These plains were a cricket pitch and in the hills the ...
... heroes , and not weep ? Unicorns , almost . For they are fading into two legends in which their stupidity and chivalry are celebrated ; the fool and the hero will be immortals . These plains were a cricket pitch and in the hills the ...
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MASEFIELD | 14 |
MILITARY EXPERIENCE IN LITERATURE | 29 |
PROBLEMATICAL | 40 |
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