NOTES TO THE POEMS
women. He has also written several plays, including
" Between Fairs " (1928).
Prometheus : a Greek who stole fire from heaven for the
use of men.
P. 149, 1. 22. Palsied: paralysed, helpless.
1. 23. Quick: live, as in "quicksilver," "the quick and
the dead."
The Ship.
Sir John Squire (b. 1884), educated at Blunders
School and St. John's College, Cambridge, is editor of
the " London Mercury," and contributes literary
criticism regularly to the " Sunday Times " and the
" Daily Telegraph." He is also editor of the " English
Men of Letters" series. Critic, essayist, poet, and
athlete, chairman of the Architecture Club, and
secretary of the Stonehenge Preservation Society,
his interests are wide as they are vital, and his
influence is always on the side of sanity in letters and art.
The Old Ships.
James Elrpy Flecker (1884-1915) entered the Consular
Service in 1910, and was appointed to Constantinople.
His close acquaintance with the East produced the
rich imagery of his play " Hassan" and " The
Golden Journey to Samarkand" (1913). In 1913 his
health obliged him to go to Switzerland. He died of
consumption at Davos.
P. 151, 1. 12. That bald-headed seaman : Ulysses, who, on
his return from the siege of Troy to his native island
of Ithaca, wandered for long in the Mediterranean.
His adventures are described in the " Odyssey" of
Homer.
1. 15. Wooden horse: A device of Ulysses. The Greek
army pretended to abandon the siege ; but left behind
a wooden horse. The Trojans dragged it into the
town. In the night, the Greeks returned, the gates
were opened by men who had been concealed within
the horse, and Troy was taken.
Everyone Sang.
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (b. 1886) was educated at
Marlborough and Cambridge. He served with dis-
tinction in France and later in Palestine. His revul-
sion from war found vent in his " Collected War Poems "
(1919)9 "Satirical Poems" (1926), and "Memoirs
of an Infantry Officer" (1930). His love of the
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