- Title Pages
- A Note of Introduction
- Chapter 1 Lands of Our Fathers
- Chapter 2 The Struggle for Existence
- Chapter 3 The Banned Word
- Chapter 4 L’Homme du Monde
- Chapter 5 Venus and Mars
- Chapter 6 The Valleys Shadowful
- Chapter 7 Mist’ Howin’s Honied Slumber
- Chapter 8 Mother and Fatherland
- Chapter 9 The Octopus
- Chapter 10 Brock’s Folk
- Chapter 11 Modern People
- Chapter 12 The Ghost and Graves
- Chapter 13 A Public School Man
- Chapter 14 Gallantry
- Chapter 15 Home
- Abbreviations
- Further Reading
- Illustration Acknowledgments
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Brock’s Folk
Brock’s Folk
- Chapter:
- (p.179) Chapter 10 Brock’s Folk
- Source:
- Wilfred Owen
- Author(s):
Guy Cuthbertson
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
Arthur Brock, born in 1879, was a doctor and a scholar interested in history, myths and legends and Celtic or Scandinavian fairy tales and folklore. This chapter discusses his influence in Wilfred Owen’s use of the spirits of places in his poems.
Keywords: Arthur Brock, myths, legends, Wilfred Owen, poems
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- Title Pages
- A Note of Introduction
- Chapter 1 Lands of Our Fathers
- Chapter 2 The Struggle for Existence
- Chapter 3 The Banned Word
- Chapter 4 L’Homme du Monde
- Chapter 5 Venus and Mars
- Chapter 6 The Valleys Shadowful
- Chapter 7 Mist’ Howin’s Honied Slumber
- Chapter 8 Mother and Fatherland
- Chapter 9 The Octopus
- Chapter 10 Brock’s Folk
- Chapter 11 Modern People
- Chapter 12 The Ghost and Graves
- Chapter 13 A Public School Man
- Chapter 14 Gallantry
- Chapter 15 Home
- Abbreviations
- Further Reading
- Illustration Acknowledgments
- Acknowledgments
- Index