The Bird-Catcher
1st Edition
Published on 2. November 2012
75 pages
978-1-4482-1033-6 (ISBN)
Description
This beautiful collection of poems tells tales of blossoming springs and fruitful summers; in Honey Harvest Armstrong depicts Spring with the overweight apple blossom nodding on their branches and the sweet honey filling our shelves, and in Spanish Vintage we are almost able to taste the plump purple grapes of August as we follow their journey through the seasons, maturing in the dark bodegas ready to be sipped when the time is just right.
This nature-inspired collection of poems was first published in 1929.
This nature-inspired collection of poems was first published in 1929.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-1033-6 (9781448210336)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Martin Armstrong 1882 - 1974) was an English writer and poet. He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He served in World War I in the British Army in France as a Private in the Artists' Rifles. He was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment in 1915 and promoted Lieutenant in 1916. He was included in the final Georgian Poetry anthology.
In 1929 he married writer Jessie McDonald, after she had divorced Conrad Aiken, making Armstrong the stepfather of the young Joan Aiken. He appears in disguised form as a character in Conrad Aiken's Ushant.
In 1929 he married writer Jessie McDonald, after she had divorced Conrad Aiken, making Armstrong the stepfather of the young Joan Aiken. He appears in disguised form as a character in Conrad Aiken's Ushant.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- I
- The Bird-catcher
- Honey Harvest
- Spanish Vintage
- Summer in Winter
- Rhapsody on a Pink-Iced Cake
- The Eve of the Fair
- II
- Before the Battle
- Immortality
- Bugles
- Epitaph
- Man Seeks to Cage Delight
- To Hate
- III
- To Messaline
- Puppets
- IV
- Heard in a Lane
- Rain in Spring
- Blue Night
- On the Salt Marsh
- Frost in Lincoln's Inn Fields
- The Naiad
- Christmas Eve
- V
- The Fisherman's Rest
- Mrs. Reece Laughs
- VI
- Expostulation to Helen
- To Helen with a Bottle of Scent
- Serenade
- The House of Love
- Autumn
- The Immortals
- Fog in the Channel
- From the French
- VII
- Cathedral at Night
- Poetry and Memory
- The Secret
- All is One
- The Cage
- A Note on the Author
- Also by the Author
- Imprint
