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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... Once and once only did love soften the Lord of the Shadows , Then , on the very threshold , he sternly revoked his gift . Aphrodite herself has no power to assuage the hurt Of her lover , his tender flesh ripped by the cruel boar . Nor ...
... Once and once only did love soften the Lord of the Shadows , Then , on the very threshold , he sternly revoked his gift . Aphrodite herself has no power to assuage the hurt Of her lover , his tender flesh ripped by the cruel boar . Nor ...
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... once manifest , these spirits have had to communicate . Either they feed us with trifles or they ' palter with us in a double sense ' . In 1900 the President of the Lyons Anthropological Society protested to Camille Flammarion , the ...
... once manifest , these spirits have had to communicate . Either they feed us with trifles or they ' palter with us in a double sense ' . In 1900 the President of the Lyons Anthropological Society protested to Camille Flammarion , the ...
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... Once in olden times a holy saint saw in the Temple a mother like you weeping for her little one , her only one , whom God had taken . Knowest thou not , said the saint to her , how bold these little ones are before the throne of ...
... Once in olden times a holy saint saw in the Temple a mother like you weeping for her little one , her only one , whom God had taken . Knowest thou not , said the saint to her , how bold these little ones are before the throne of ...
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