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Images: Watch Picasso’s “Guernica” Emerge
Posted on 4 May 201826 Jul 2018

Images: Watch Picasso’s “Guernica” Emerge

Scroll through this selection of preliminary studies & photos of the canvas as it was worked on & completed. Pretty astonishing, & all done in about five weeks. Advertisements Continue reading Images: Watch Picasso’s “Guernica” Emerge

Ted Hughes: 2 War Poems
Posted on 26 Mar 201826 Jul 2018

Ted Hughes: 2 War Poems

Six Young Men The celluloid of a photograph holds them well – Six young men, familiar to their friends. Four decades that have faded and ochre-tinged This photograph have not wrinkled the faces or the hands. Though their cocked hats are not now fashionable, Their shoes shine. One imparts an intimate smile, One chews a … Continue reading Ted Hughes: 2 War Poems

Walt Whitman, “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim”
Posted on 3 Mar 201826 Jul 2018

Walt Whitman, “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim”

Walt Whitman, early 1863, looking on the Civil War dead: A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim, As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless, As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent, … Continue reading Walt Whitman, “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim”

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