If you have always thought of Arthur Conan Doyle as a hyper-rational one-trick pony, it's time to reevaluate your assumptions. This volume of verse from the beloved creator of Sherlock Holmes adds a starkly different dimension to his literary oeuvre....
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If you have always thought of Arthur Conan Doyle as a hyper-rational one-trick pony, it's time to reevaluate your assumptions. This volume of verse from the beloved creator of Sherlock Holmes adds a starkly different dimension to his literary oeuvre. Linked by martial themes, the poems collected in Songs of Action are stirring and thought-provoking
Title; Contents; The Song of the Bow; Cremona; The Storming Party; The Frontier Line; Corporal Dick's Promotion; A Forgotten Tale; Pennarby Mine; A Rover Chanty; A Ballad of the Ranks; A Lay of the Links; The Dying Whip; Master; H.M.S. 'Foudroyant'; The Farnshire Cup; The Groom's Story; With the Chiddingfolds; A Hunting Morning; The Old Gray Fox; 'Ware Holes'; The Home-Coming of the 'Eurydice'; The Inner Room; The Irish Colonel; The Blind Archer; A Parable; A Tragedy; The Passing; The Franklin's Maid; The Old Huntsman;
