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Poets

W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

mentioned p23 (Hector), p36 (Irwin), p38 (Lockwood, Dakin, Irwin)

Letters from Iceland (1937)

-Letter to Lord Byron

"Let each child that's in your care (Hector)

have as much neurosis that the child can bear." (Mrs Lintott) - p23

Musee des Beaux Arts (1938)

"About suffering, they were never wrong,"

"The Old Masters ... how it takes place"

"While someone else is eating or opening a window ..." – p36 (Timms)

Lay your sleeping head, my love (a.k.a) Lullaby (1937)

"Lay your sleeping head, my love

Human on my faithless arm." – p38 (Dakin)

Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)

mentioned p54 (Posner)

1914 (1914)

-V. The Soldier

"There's some corner of a foreign field...

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed..." - p54 (Posner)

Frances Cornford (1886-1960)

Poems (1910)

-On Rupert Brooke

"Magnificently unprepared

For the londg littleness of life." p92 (Hector)

T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

mentioned p45 (Scripps)

Poems (1920)

-Gerontion

"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" – p51 (Hector)

"I am an old man in a dry month." - p66 (Hector)

-Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service

"A painter of the Umbrian school

Designed upon a gesso ground

The nimbus of the Baptized God.

The wilderness is cracked and browned

But through the water pale and thin

Still shine the unoffending feet

And there above the painter set

The Father and the Paraclete." - pp45-46 (Scripps)

Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)

mentioned p54 (Posner), p55 (Hector, Posner)

Drummer Hodge (1899) - mentioned p54 (Posner)

-"They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest

Uncoffined -- just as found:

His landmark is a kopje-crest

That breaks the veldt around:

And foreign constellations west

Each night above his mound.

Young Hodge the drummer never knew --

Fresh from his Wessex home --

The meaning of the broad Karoo,

The Bush, the dusty loam,

And why uprose to nightly view

Strange stars amid the gloam.

Yet portion of that unknown plain

Will Hodge for ever be;

His homely Northern breast and brain

Grow to some Southern tree,

And strange-eyed constellations reign

His stars eternally." - p54 (Posner)

-"Yet portion of that unknown plain/ Will Hodge for ever be" - p54 (Posner)

-"Uncoffined" p56 (Hector)

-"Yet portion of that unknown plain

Will Hodge for ever be;

His homely Northern breast and brain

Grow to some Southern tree,

And strange-eyed constellations reign

His stars eternally." - p56 (Posner)

A E Houseman (1859 – 1936)

mentioned p5 (Akthar, Hector), p44 (Posner)

"All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use" p5 (Hector)

A Shropshire Lad (1896):

-II (a.k.a) Loveliest of trees the cherry now - mentioned p5 (Hector)

-XXXI (a.k.a) On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble

"The tree of man was never quiet:

Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I." - p52 (Hector)

Last Poems (1922)

-XXXV

"To think that two and two are four

And never five nor three

The heart of man has long been sore

And long 'tis like to be." – p52 (Hector)

Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)

mentioned p26 (Irwin)

Epitaphs of the War (1914 - 1918)

-Common From

"If any question why we died,

Tell them because our fathers lied." - p26 (Irwin)

Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985)

mentioned p11 (Irwin, Headmaster), p51 (Hector), p55 (Hector)

The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

-MCMXIV

"Those long uneven lines

Standing patiently

As if they were stretched outside

The Oval or Villa Park,

The crowns of hats, the sun

On moustached archaic faces

Grinning as if it were all

An August Bank Holiday lark (Scripps)

Never such innocence,

Never before or since,

As changed itself to past

Without a word (Lockwood) the men

Leaving the gardens tidy, (Akthar)

The thousands of marriages

Lasting a little while longer: (Posner)

Never such innocence again." (Timms) – p27

John Milton (1608 – 1674)

Samson Agonistes (1671)

"Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail." line 1724 - p66 (Hector)

Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)

mentioned p24 (Dakin), p26 (Irwin), p98 (Rudge)

Anthem for Doomed Youth (1916)

"these who die as cattle" (Wilfred Owen)

"men were dying like cattle," - allusion p24 (Dakin)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967)

mentioned p26 (Irwin)

Stevie Smith (1902 - 1971)

mentioned p39 (Lockwood)

Voices against England in the night

"England you have been here too long

And the songs you sing now are the songs you sung

On an earlier day, now they are wrong." - p39 (Lockwood)

Not Waving but Drowning (1957) – mentioned p39 (Lockwood)

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

mentioned p32 (Hector)

Leaves of Grass (1855) – mentioned p32 (Hector)

-Now Finale to the Shore

The untold want by life and land ne'er granted

Now Voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find." - p32 (Hector)

Playwrights

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)

mentioned p76 (Dakin), p82 (Hector)

Hamlet

Act 5 Scene 2
HAMLET (Hector):

"O villainy! Let the door be locked!

Treachery! Seek it out." - p30

Love's Labour's Lost

Act 5 Scene 2
DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO (Hector):

"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs

of Apollo. You that way, we this way." – p57

King Lear

Act 5 Scene 3
EDGAR (Posner):

Look up, my lord.

KENT (Timms):

Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much

That would upon the rack of this tough world

Stretch him out longer.

EDGAR (Posner):

He is gone, indeed.

KENT (Timms):

The wonder is, he hath endured so long:

He but usurp'd his life." - p7

KENT (Hector):

I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;

My master calls me, I must not say no.

ALBANY (Posner):

The weight of this sad time we must obey;

speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." - p7

Othello

Act 5 Scene 2
OTHELLO:

Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire." - p6 (Hector)

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

mentioned p53 (Headmaster)

Authors

Franz Kafka (1883) – (1924)

mentioned p87 (Crowther)

The Trial(1925) - mentioned p30 (Hector)

George Orwell
name dropped pp34, 73

Virginia Wolfe
mentioned p96

Composers

• Mozart – mentioned p83
  • Don Giovanni – mentioned p30
• Tippet – mentioned p83
• Bruckner - mentioned p83

Artists

• Rembrandt – name dropped p26,35
• Francis Bacon - name dropped p35
• Turner - name dropped p36
• Ingress - name dropped p36
• Piero della Francesca - name dropped p46
  • Baptism – alluded to p46
• Michelangelo - mentioned p53
• Van Gogh – mentioned p69
• Wilfred Pickles – quoted p104

Philosophers

• Blaise Pascal
  • Les Pensees – quoted in English p37
• Frederick Nietchze – mentioned p47
• Plato – mentioned p53
• Wittgenstein – name dropped p72, 84
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus- quoted p71, 84
• Jean-Paul Satre – mentioned p86, 87

Actors

• Paul Henreid - mentioned p32
• Betty Davis - mentioned p32
• James Mason - mentioned p67
• Anne Todd - mentioned p67

Films

• Now Voyager – mentioned, performed pp31-32
• The Carry On Films – name dropped, mentioned p33
• Brief Encounter – mentioned, performed p40, mentioned p93
• The Seventh Veil - performed p66, mentioned p67
• Svengali – mentioned p66
• Sporting Life- mentioned p86

Written Works

• The Bible
  • Deuteronomy 30:19 - quoted p6
  • Revelations 2:20 – quoted p30
• The Anglican Book of Common Prayer, mentioned pp7,37
  • chapter title: “Hymns Ancient and Modern” -name dropped p7
• Tudor Economic Documents Vol 2, Tawney & Power – name dropped p21
• Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger – name dropped p23
• Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman –name dropped, quoted p32
• The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan, name dropped p37
• Pigeon Fanciers Gazette, name dropped p37
• The Magnet: Billy Bunter
  • Mr Quelch (character) – mentioned p58
• The Statesman, mentioned p75
• The Wind in the Willows – quoted p94
• The Lord of the Rings – mentioned p96
• The Spectator – mentioned p102

Words/Language

• Renaissance man p9
• Otiose p5
• The Conditional pp12, 13
• The Subjunctive pp12, 13, 14, 64, 90, 91
• Hecatombs p23
• The Person from Porlock- mentioned pp30, 31
• Forces of Progress p 36
• Spectre of Modernity p36
• The Presence p51
• Meretricious p60, 75
• Apotheosis p63
• Tout comprendre est tout pardoner p74
• Disingenuous p75
• Herbert Butterfield

adapted bloody => fucking p85

• Subjunctive History p90
• Gernunds p100

• The French language –

Opening scene of boys and Hector in French p4 Scene performed in French p12-16

Music

• Édith Piaf
  • L'accordéoniste - Sung p12
  • (version of) ‘La Vie en Rose’- played on piano p13
• Pal Joey - Lorenz Hart
  • Betwitched – Sung p29
• Rachmaninov
  • Second Piano Concerto – played on piano p40
• Isaac Watts
  • When I survey the Wondrous Cross – sung p44
• Elvis Presley – name dropped p46
• Beethoven
  • Piano Sonata No. 8 – Pathétique – played on piano p66
• Grieg
  • Grieg’s Piano Concerto – mentioned p66
• George Formby – name dropped p67
  • When I’m cleaning windows – mentioned p67
• Gracie fields – name dropped p67, 79, mentioned p94, 104
  • Sing as we go- performed p79
  • Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye – performed p92
• Barbara Streisand – name dropped p79
• Richard Rogers – mentioned p82
• Mozart – mention p83
• Tippet – mention p83
• Pet Shop Boys
  • It’s a Sin –performed p104
• Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon
  • Bye Bye, Blackbird - performed p106

Architects

• Richard Rogers - mentioned p82
• Wren-Hawksmoor - mentioned p82

Historians

• Namier – name dropped p93

Historic Events and People

• The Annunciation – mentioned p95
• (St.) Aelred of Rievaulx – mentioned p59
• The Murder of Thomas Beckett – mentioned p31
• Monasticism – mentioned p58-59
• The dissolution of the Monasteries – mentioned p63, 74, 78
• The Reformation 16th Century – mentioned p19
  • Christ’s prepuce – mentioned/briefly discussed p19
• Elizabeth I – mentioned p83
• The Renaissance – mentioned p53
• The British Empire – mentioned p 80
• The Zulu Wars – mentioned p55
• The Boer War– mentioned p55
• WWI mentioned p15,24
  • (Third likely) Battle of Ypres WWI – mentioned/short re-enactment p15
  • Treaty of Versailles - mentioned p24, 81, alluded to p85
  • Sir Douglas Haig – named dropped p24
  • Hitler – name dropped p24,25
  • The Cenotaph – mentioned p25
  • The Last Post – mentioned p25
  • Passchendaele – mentioned p25, used in ‘Fiona Western-Front” metaphor p28
  • The Somme - mentioned p25
  • The Unknown Soldier – mentioned p25
  • The Hun (German Army) - mentioned p28
  • The Western Front - mentioned p81
  • The Armistice - mentioned p81
• The Weimar Republic - mentioned p24, 81
• WWII – mentioned p70, 72
  • Hitler - mentioned p72
  • Stalin – mentioned p98
  • Nazis - mentioned p73
  • The Holocaust –discussed p70-74, mentioned p 78, 79, 96
    • Auschwitz – name dropped p71
    • Dachau - name dropped p71
  • Chamberlain – mentioned p90
    • Chamberlain resigning as Prime Minister – mentioned p90
  • Churchill – mentioned p90
  • Lord Halifax – mentioned p90
  • Hitler’s Invasion of Poland – mentioned p89
  • Hitler’s turning on Russia – mentioned p90
  • Alamenin – mentioned p 90
  • Montgomery - mentioned p 90
  • General Gott - mentioned p 90
  • Pearl Harbour –mentioned p35
  • President F.D.Roosevelt name dropped p35
  • Dunkirk – mentioned p89
  • The British National Front – mentioned p34
• Hollywood – mentioned p35, 58
• Stalin – name dropped p35, 58
• Henry VIII – name dropped pp35, 58, 62, mentioned p74
• Margaret Thatcher – name dropped p35, 58
• Rievaulx Abbey – setting p58-63, mentioned p 58
• Roche Abbey – mentioned p102