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Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica

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ISBN: 9781846970931

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	HENDERSON HAMIS
Pub Date	18/09/2008
Binding	Paperback
Pages	72

Publisher: Birlinn General

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Written between 1942 and 1947, when Hamish Henderson was serving in the North African desert during the Second World War, this title contains elegies that pay tribute to the men who fought with and against him, their lives portrayed with great sympathy and compassion, while the desert itself becomes the unforgiving enemy.

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"Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica" was written between 1942 and 1947, when Hamish Henderson was serving in the North African desert during the Second World War. Each elegy pays tribute to the men who fought with and against him, their lives portrayed with great sympathy and compassion, while the desert itself becomes the unforgiving enemy. Published in 1948, the poems were highly praised by his contemporaries including Cecil Day-Lewis, T. S Eliot and Hugh MacDairmid. This collection was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1949.