A.L. Rowse
Born
in Tregonissey, Cornwall, The United Kingdom
December 04, 1903
Died
October 03, 1997
Genre
Influences
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Homosexuals in History
16 editions
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1977
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Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses
11 editions
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published
1966
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A Cornish Childhood: Autobiography of a Cornishman.
21 editions
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published
1942
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Apa Guna Sejarah?
22 editions
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published
1946
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William Shakespeare: A Biography
29 editions
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published
1963
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The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society
8 editions
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published
1971
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The England of Elizabeth
30 editions
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published
1950
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Shakespeare the Man
13 editions
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published
1988
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The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Cultural Achievement
12 editions
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published
1972
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The Tower of London in the History of England
5 editions
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1972
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“When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were swaddled in them from the cradle to the grave, their daily actions in large part determined by them - so many things you would not think of doing, like starting a journey on a Friday, or looking at the moon through a pane of glass, or failing to wear something new on Whitsunday - their minds haunted by ghosts and fears, you have a fair idea of what the minds of these people in the sixteenth century were like. It was a life full of shadows that frightened them and dangers that might come home to them; how much more so in those days when their fears had the sanction, and even the corroboration, of the elect and the intelligent: when a uniform religion existed to enforce its lessons and draw the moral. However, no doubt it filled up life for them, made it more interesting and exciting, more mysterious and incalculable; it added a dimension to it, where the modern uneducated, rid of their fears and ghosts, are apt to find life empty and void of meaning.”
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“O moon that makes restless the hearts of men,
That lays an insane beam upon their mind,
And laughing makes men mad.
- Sunday Night: Truro”
― Poems of Deliverance
That lays an insane beam upon their mind,
And laughing makes men mad.
- Sunday Night: Truro”
― Poems of Deliverance
“In the inmost recesses of consciousness,
The wound opening inwards,
The spirit too proud to admit an injury,
Incessantly grazed and torn again
By the insensitive, the enemy that hates
Difference, quality that escapes submission
To common complacency, impure hypocrisy-
That would annihilate what is uncommon,
Challenging their meanness, their lack of standards
With something electric and alive, a vibrancy
That offers not a new Heaven and a new Earth
But life, more life and light-
To be rejected.
- The Parting”
― Poems of Deliverance
The wound opening inwards,
The spirit too proud to admit an injury,
Incessantly grazed and torn again
By the insensitive, the enemy that hates
Difference, quality that escapes submission
To common complacency, impure hypocrisy-
That would annihilate what is uncommon,
Challenging their meanness, their lack of standards
With something electric and alive, a vibrancy
That offers not a new Heaven and a new Earth
But life, more life and light-
To be rejected.
- The Parting”
― Poems of Deliverance
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