Stanley Spencer (Text Only). Ken Pople

COPYRIGHT

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      First published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd 1991

      This edition published in paperback 1996

      Copyright © Kenneth Pople 1991

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      Source ISBN: 9780002556644

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      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Preamble

Part One: The Early Cookham Years 1891–1915

1 The Coming of the Wise Men

2 The Fairy on the Waterlily Leaf

3 John Donne Arriving in Heaven

4 Apple Gatherers

5 The Nativity

6 Self-Portrait, 1914

7 The Centurion’s Servant

8 Cookham, 1914

9 Swan Upping

10 Christ Carrying the Cross

Part Two: The Confusions of War 1915–1918

11 The Burghclere Chapel: The Beaufort panels

12 The Burghclere Chapel: Tweseldown

13 The Burghclere Chapel: The left-wall frieze

14 The Burghclere Chapel: The right-wall frieze

       15 The Burghclere Chapel: The 1917 summer panels

       16 The Burghclere Chapel: The infantry panels

       17 The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon

       Part Three: The Years of Recovery 1919–1924

       18 Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem

       19 Travoys Arriving with Wounded Soldiers at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia

       20 The Last Supper

       21 The Crucifixion, 1921

       22 The Betrayal, 1923

       Part Four: The Great Resurrections 1924–1931

       23 The Resurrection in Cookham Churchyard

       24 Burghclere: The Resurrection of Soldiers

       Part Five: Return to Cookham 1932–1936

       25 The Church of Me

       26 Portrait of Patricia Preece

       27 The Dustman, or The Lovers

       28 Love on the Moor

       29 St Francis and the Birds

       30 By the River

       31 Love Among the Nations

       32 Bridesmaids at Cana

       Part Six: The Marital Disasters 1936–1939

       33 Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece

       34 Hilda, Unity and Dolls