Author: Christopher Bland

Cites

• Louis MacNeice (1)
  • IN: Ashes in the Wind (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The land of scholars and saints; Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush, Purblind manifestos, never-ending complaints, The born martyr and the gallant ninny; The grocer drunk with the drum, The land-owner shot in his bed, the angry voices Piercing the broken fanlight in the slum.
    FROM: Autumn Journal, (1939), Poem, UK
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Ashes in the Wind (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
    FROM: September 1913', (1913), Poem, Ireland