Robert Graves
Whipperginny
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664589224
Table of Contents
WHIPPERGINNY (“A card game, obsolete.”— Standard Dictionary.)
CHILDREN OF DARKNESS (“In their generation wiser than the children of Light.”)
THE LANDS OF WHIPPERGINNY (“Heaven or Hell or the Lands of Whipperginny.”—Nashe’s Jack Wilton .)
INTERLUDE: ON PRESERVING A POETICAL FORMULA
A HISTORY OF PEACE (Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant)
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN TELLS OF A FAMOUS MEETING
THE SEWING BASKET (Accompanying a wedding present from Jenny Nicholson to Winifred Roberts)
A NEW PORTRAIT OF JUDITH OF BETHULIA
THE MARTYRED DECADENTS: A SYMPATHETIC SATIRE
“ A VEHICLE, TO WIT, A BICYCLE.”
THE MANIFESTATION IN THE TEMPLE