Charles hamilton sorley biography books
•
Charles Hamilton Sorley: A Biography
Visit Seller's Storefront
Seller's business information
Priorsford BooksUnited Kingdom
All books are described as accurately as possible, including any areas of damage, and we aim to provide all our förteckning with an accompanying image. However, should you need any further information about any of our listings or you have any concerns about your order, please do not hesitate to contact us at hello@priorsfordbooks.co.uk.
Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG
•
The Letters of Charles Sorley: With a Chapter of Biography. E-book. Formato PDF
N the spring of 1 9 I 6, a few weeks after the publication of Marlborough and Other Poems, a letter about the book and its author reached me from an unknown correspondent. I have had it a week, he wrote, and it has haunted my thoughts. inom have been affected with a sense of personal loss, as if he had been not a stranger but my dearest friend. But indeed his personality the 'vivida vis animi' — shines so strongly out of every line, that I feel I have known him as one knows very few living people: and surely no one was ever better worth inom venture to beg you, the writer went onto say, before it is too late, to give the world some fuller account of his brief us know him with his faults nothing extenuated, as his fellows knew him, with the 'rebel' side brought out — the boy who 'got not many good reports,' who was yet the same as he who stood 'with parted lips and outstretched Many other readers made the sam
•
Charles Sorley
British poet (1895–1915)
CaptainCharles Hamilton Sorley (19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915) was a British Armyofficer and Scottishwar poet who fought in the First World War. He was killed in action during the Battle of Loos in October 1915.
Life and work
[edit]Born in Powis House Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of philosopher and University Professor William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge,[1] and then like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908–13). At Marlborough College Sorley's favourite pursuit was cross-country running in the rain, a theme evident in many of his pre-war poems, including Rain and The Song of the Ungirt Runners. In keeping with his strict Protestant upbringing, Sorley had strong views on right and wrong, and on two occasions volunteered to be punished for breaking school rules.[2]
Before taking up a scholarship to study at University College, Oxford, Sorley spent a lit