The Oxford Book of DeathDennis Joseph Enright Oxford University Press, 1987 - 351 psl. "Reading for this anthology," writes D.J. Enright, "I was moved to the thought that on no theme have writers shown themselves more lively." A survivor of Belsen voiced the same sentiment when, reflecting on the concentration camps, he wrote, "When in death we are in the midst of life." By turns poignant, tragic, comic, and inspiring, this anthology of thoughts about death ranges from ancient times to the present day--including almost 900 selections by poets, novelists, philosophers, scientists, and common people. Arranged under headings such as "Love," "War," "Last Words," and "Children," these selections show the varied, sometimes surprising, reactions of the dying and the bereaved to the final human act. |
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... hath learned to die , hath unlearned to serve . There is no evil in life , for him that hath well conceived , how the privation of life is no evil . To know how to die , doth free us from all subjection and constraint . Michel de ...
... hath learned to die , hath unlearned to serve . There is no evil in life , for him that hath well conceived , how the privation of life is no evil . To know how to die , doth free us from all subjection and constraint . Michel de ...
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... hath nothing to distract him , and hath prosperity in all things , and that still hath strength to receive meat ! O death , acceptable is thy sentence unto a man that is needy , and that faileth in strength , that is in extreme old age ...
... hath nothing to distract him , and hath prosperity in all things , and that still hath strength to receive meat ! O death , acceptable is thy sentence unto a man that is needy , and that faileth in strength , that is in extreme old age ...
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... hath be , Ye , for an heyre clout to wrappe me ! " But yet to me she wol nat do that grace , For which ful pale and welkèd is my face . ' GEOFFREY CHAUCER ( ? 1340-1400 ) , from ' The Pardoner's Tale ' I know this body but a sink of ...
... hath be , Ye , for an heyre clout to wrappe me ! " But yet to me she wol nat do that grace , For which ful pale and welkèd is my face . ' GEOFFREY CHAUCER ( ? 1340-1400 ) , from ' The Pardoner's Tale ' I know this body but a sink of ...
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