In a Green Shade

by Maurice Hewlett

Book Overview

Excerpt from In a Green Shade: A Country Commentary The title has become equivocal, since there are more green shades in employment now than were dreamed of by Andrew Marvell. Science is a great maker of homophones, without respect for the poets. There is, for instance, the demilune of lined buckram borne by the weak-eyed on their foreheads, the phylactery of the have-beens - I lay myself open to be believed a cripple, or to look an old fool. A vivacious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1518775535
• ISBN13: 9781518775536
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"