If a piece of writing feels like a unit, it lends its argument an impression, however spurious, of coherence.

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The 'book' edition, of one hundred copies plus twenty artist's proofs, consists of fifteen prints, three title pages and a colophon page signed by all the artists, presented in a box. The individual artists used different types of paper, all of the same size, some working in landscape and others in portrait format. He explained in the introduction to the first edition that he had always read poetry and since I had once a very retentive memory for verse much has remained in my head .His introduction to the first, his son’s introduction to the last (memorial edition) help define context of the man and the collection.

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Shortly afterwards it was announced that he had been created a viscount (taking the style Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, in the county of Southampton) [61] He addressed an all-party meeting at the House of Commons on 27 July, and on 28 July took his seat in the House of Lords as "the Empire's hero". In April 1912 he became a General Staff Officer Grade 3 (GSO3) in the Russian Section of the War Office. Field Marshal Wavell wrote in his introduction, in New Delhi in April 1943: ‘My experience is that one can never properly appreciate a poem until one has got it by heart: memory stumbles over a word or a line and so wonders why the poet wrote it so, and then savours it slowly that its meaning and relish may stay.However, he was also concerned at the Army's effectively intervening in politics, not least as there would be an even greater appearance of bias when the Army was used against industrial unrest.