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    The Poetry Of Robert Nichols - Volume 1: Ardours & Endurances
    The Poetry Of Robert Nichols - Volume 1: Ardours & Endurances
    The Poetry Of Robert Nichols - Volume 1: Ardours & Endurances
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    Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols was born in September 1893. Robert was educated at Winchester College and then Trinity College, Oxford. In September 1914 with the shadow of the Great War covering Europe he enlisted, despite poor health, with the Field Artillery. He trained for a year and reached the front line just before the beginning of the Battle of Loos in September 1915. He was also to serve at the Battle of the Somme as an artillery officer in 1916, after suffering from shell shock he was invalided back to England. Taking up service with The British Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Information he began to write more avidly. As one of the War’s surviving poets he was able to also give his work a depth and reflection that many of his other fallen contemporaries were not able too. He also began to give readings of his poems as well as tours in America. Robert also wrote four plays and two novels as well as several further volumes of poetry. Now rightly regarded as one of the pre-eminent War Poets his poetry is richly rewarding, filled with vivid descriptions and emotions of the human suffering during war. It’s end brought him together with Nancy Cunard who was the inspiration for his next book Aurelia (1920). He was in Tokyo from 1921 to 1924 teaching English Literature and from 1924 to 1926 Hollywood beckoned. In 1928 his play, Wings Over Europe, foretelling the splitting of the atom was a success in New York. In 1933-4 he was in Austria and Germany, his long weekly letters to Henry Head, the neurologist under whose care he had been for shell-shock, give a graphic eye-witness account of the rise of Hitler. By the end of the 1930’s he was living in the South of France, his emotional and financial affairs in turmoil. With occupation of France by German and Vichy forces he was on the last ship to carry British refugees from the Cote d’Azur. Robert Nichols died on December 17th 1944. He is buried at St Mary's, in Lawford, Essex. Here we publish ‘Ardours & Endurances’ together with some of his other of his remarkable war poems.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateJan 3, 2014
    ISBN9781783949403
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      The Poetry Of Robert Nichols - Volume 1 - Robert Nichols

      The Poetry Of Robert Nichols

      Volume 1 – Ardours & Endurances

      Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols was born in September 1893.

      Robert was educated at Winchester College and then Trinity College, Oxford.  In September 1914 with the shadow of the Great War covering Europe he enlisted, despite poor health, with the Field Artillery.  He trained for a year and reached the front line just before the beginning of the Battle of Loos in September 1915.  He was also to serve at the Battle of the Somme as an artillery officer in 1916, after suffering from shell shock he was invalided back to England.

      Taking up service with The British Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Information he began to write more avidly. As one of the War’s surviving poets he was able to also give his work a depth and reflection that many of his other fallen contemporaries were not able too.  He also began to give readings of his poems as well as tours in America.

      Robert also wrote four plays and two novels as well as several further volumes of poetry.  Now rightly regarded as one of the pre-eminent War Poets his poetry is richly rewarding, filled with vivid descriptions and emotions of the human suffering during war.

      It’s end brought him together with Nancy Cunard who was the inspiration for his next book Aurelia (1920). He was in Tokyo from 1921 to 1924 teaching English Literature and from 1924 to 1926 Hollywood beckoned. 

      In 1928 his play, Wings Over Europe, foretelling the splitting of the atom was a success in New York. In 1933-4 he was in Austria and Germany, his long weekly letters to Henry Head, the neurologist under whose care he had been for shell-shock, give a graphic eye-witness account of the rise of Hitler. 

      By the end of the 1930’s he was living in the South of France, his emotional and financial affairs in turmoil.  With occupation of France by German and Vichy forces he was on the last ship to carry British refugees from the Cote d’Azur. 

      Robert Nichols died on December 17th 1944.  He is buried at St Mary's, in Lawford, Essex.

      Index Of Poems

      INTRODUCTION

      BOOK I

      ARDOURS AND ENDURANCES

      THE SUMMONS:                                                

      I. To----                                                    

      II. The Past                                              

      III. The Reckoning                                  

      FAREWELL TO PLACE OF COMFORT                                    

      THE APPROACH:

      I. In the Grass: Halt by Roadside                           

      II. The Day's March                                          

      III. Nearer                                                   

      BATTLE:

      I. Noon                                                    

      II. Night Bombardment                                    

      III. Comrades: An Episode                               

      IV. Behind the Lines: Night, France               

      V. At the Wars                                              

      VI. Out of Trenches: The Barn, Twilight                      

      VII. Battery moving up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn 

      VIII. Eve of Assault: Infantry going down to Trenches          

      IX. The Assault                                              

      X. The Last Morning                                     

      XI. Fulfilment                                               

      THE DEAD:

      I. The Burial in Flanders                                  

      II. Boy                                                      

      III. Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken                     

      IV. By the Wood                                              

      THE AFTERMATH:

      I. At the Ebb                                               

      II. Alone                                                    

      III. Thanksgiving                                             

      IV. Annihilated                                              

      V. Shut of Night                                            

      VI. The Full Heart                                           

      VII. Sonnet: Our Dead                                         

      VIII. Deliverance                                              

      OTHER POEMS:

      Address To The Sunset

      Evenstar

      Farewell

      Fulfilment

      I Must Remember Now

      Nearer

      Night Rhapsody

      November

      O Nightingale My Heart

      PÆan

      Seventeen

      The Flower Of Flame

      The Last Salute

      The Pilgrim

      The Sprig of Lime

      The Stranger

      The Tower

      Three Songs Of The Enigma

         I - Something

           II - A Wandering Thing

          III – Modern Love Song

      The Day’s March

      Robert Nichols –A Concise Bibliogrpahy

      INTRODUCTION

      1. Of The Nature Of The Poet:

      "We are (often) so impressed by the power of poetry that we think of it as something made by a wonderful and unusual person: we do not realize the fact that all the wonder and marvel is in our own brains, that the poet is ourselves. He speaks our language better than we do merely because he is more skilful with it than we are; his skill is part of our skill, his power of our power; generations of English-speaking men and women have made us sensible to these things, and our sensibility comes from the same source that the poet's power of stimulating it comes from.

      Given a little more sensitiveness to external stimuli, a little more power

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