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After he married, the couple moved to Silloth, and Harkins turned to visual art, principally painting nude and erotic portraits, many of his wife, and selling them online, as well as caring for the couple's disabled son. [1] [2] [7] They later returned to live in Carlisle. [8]
Memorial Tablet is a war poem by Siegfried Sassoon, written in October 1918 [1] and first published in his 1919 collection Picture-Show. The original manuscript is held by Cambridge University Library. [2] Sassoon had by this time been invalided out of the army and the war had only a month to run. The poem is narrated in the first person by a ...
The poem recounts a dream vision in which the speaker saw his wife return to him (as the dead Alcestis appeared to her husband Admetus), only to see her disappear again as day comes. There is considerable discussion among scholars as to which of his first two wives Milton could refer to.
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
The emotional trauma of miscarriage is often overlooked when it comes to hopeful fathers, and writer Frederick Joseph wants to change that.
A Grief Observed is a collection of C. S. Lewis's reflections on his experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960.The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk because Lewis wished to avoid the connection.
Now, the husband of one of the victims has penned a powerful note addressed to his wife's killers and it has gone viral. Antoine Leiris' wife, Helen, was one of 89 killed at the Bataclan by ISIS ...
Enoch Arden (watercolour painting by George Goodwin Kilburne). Fisherman-turned-merchant sailor Enoch Arden leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, having lost his job due to an accident; reflective of a masculine mindset common in that era, Enoch sacrifices his comfort and the companionship of his family in order to better support them.