https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40586 2026-04-07T18:38:47Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40886 Title: The two houses Abstract: The house is one of the most pervasive images used by both Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas in their writings on the past. Edward Thomas remarks in a letter to Gordon Bottomley: 'So far the best things I have done have been about houses. I have quite a long series - I discover, tho I did not design it.' Although this remark refers only to the prevalence of the house image in his prose his later poetry was to be equally prolific in the use of such imagery. Hardy has not noted this tendency in his work yet he, too, frequently resorts to the use of house imagery in his poetry. Both Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas share a mutual concern with the persistence of the past and in the work of both writers the image of the house plays a significant role in this regard. It is a nodal point upon which several of their different views on the inter-relatedness of past and present inevitably converge. 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40885 Title: Poems by Joe Friggieri [JFA, 5(4)] Abstract: A selection of poems written by J. Friggieri: 'Stedina', 'Faire-part', 'Ghaliex', 'It-tieni darba', 'La deuxieme fois', 'Epigramm A', 'Epigramm B', 'Loghba', 'Ghid', 'Vjagg', 'A voyage', 'Quddiesa', 'Gheden', 'Bidla', 'Awrikarja', 'The second time', 'Ix-xih u jien', and 'The Old Man and I'. 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40884 Title: Selected poems [JFA, 5(4)] Abstract: A selection of poems written by J. Aquilina: 'Obituary', 'A widow's sorrow', 'Westward Ho!', 'Leptis Magna', 'Time's clown', 'Athens', 'Fame', 'The Storm', 'Shipwreck', 'Dedication', 'Questions', 'The People's festival of fun and mirth' and 'Academic boredom'. 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40746 Title: Le jardin de l'allelik de L. Ropa : commentaire de Mon Coeur au Vent Abstract: En ce triple sonnet, Ie poete comprend Ie sens double et la double finalite de ce souffle, symbole de l'inspiration humaine du poete et de la grace divine du chretien. Il a la voix 'tempetueuse', 'sifflante', 'menant un troupeau d'ombres pathetique'. 'Orgueilleux fil s de I' Aurore', it est signe d"Apocal ypse'. Mais soudain, le poete ecoute mieux Ie Vent. Il croit percevoir en son coeur un doute. 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z