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In order to mark Remembrance Day, MQUP presents a small excerpt of Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities edited by Sherrill Grace, Patrick Imbert and Tiffany Johnstone.
[F.R.] Scott had accepted an invitation to teach at Harvard in 1940–41 and he was there during the Battle of Britain, when England was bombed every night. The thought that England might fall – the green and lovely England of his Oxford days – generated great anxiety because Scott felt, belatedly, that he had been wrong. This was not just a European war but one which put Western civilization in jeopardy. Scott’s sense of inner conflict generated a poem of the same name:
When I see the falling bombs
Then I see defended homes.
Men above and men below
Die to save the good they know. (1981, 97)
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