The Oxford Book of DeathDennis Joseph Enright Oxford University Press, 1983 - 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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... hour the mind does not change its lifelong bias , but carries it onwards in imagination to the other side of death , gazing backward -perhaps with the divine calm of beneficence , perhaps with the petty anxieties of self - assertion ...
... hour the mind does not change its lifelong bias , but carries it onwards in imagination to the other side of death , gazing backward -perhaps with the divine calm of beneficence , perhaps with the petty anxieties of self - assertion ...
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... hour before he came out of them . His few last words I must not omit , as they show an ultimate com- posure ; which ... hour after ten . SAMUEL RICHARDSON ( 16891761 ) , Clarissa Harlowe ( the death of Lovelace ) If she avoided looking ...
... hour before he came out of them . His few last words I must not omit , as they show an ultimate com- posure ; which ... hour after ten . SAMUEL RICHARDSON ( 16891761 ) , Clarissa Harlowe ( the death of Lovelace ) If she avoided looking ...
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... hours , out of weakness , and probably dreamed of the flat - land and the service and whatever else was pleasant to him to dream . . . At seven o'clock he died . . . He had sunk down in the bed and curtly ordered them to ... Hour of Death.
... hours , out of weakness , and probably dreamed of the flat - land and the service and whatever else was pleasant to him to dream . . . At seven o'clock he died . . . He had sunk down in the bed and curtly ordered them to ... Hour of Death.
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