Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Keith Douglas
Born: January 24, 1920
Died: June 9, 1944 (aged 24)
Bio: Keith Castellain Douglas was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
Known for:
- Alamein to Zem Zem
- Carrier
- Complete poems
- A Prose Miscellany
- The letters