高级英语课件No-Signposts-in-the-Sea.pptVIP

vv Vita Sackville-West Born: 1892 Knole Castle Died: 1962 aged70 Nationality: English Occupation: poet novelist gardener key words: Personal life Marriage Bisexuality Honour The memebers came from mostly upper middle-class professional families. Almost everything about Bloomsbury appears to be controversial, including its membership and name. 1913 Harold Nicolson Diplomat/journalist Broadcaster/MP/author Fellow bisexual Open marriage Same-sex relations Outside marriage Affair with Violet Trefusis The affair for which Sackville-West is most remembered was with the prominent writer Virginia Woolf in the late 1920s. In consequence, Woolf wrote one of her most famous novels, Orlando. Honour The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems. In 1946 Sackville-West was made a Companion of Honor (名誉勋爵士) for her services to literature. Hawthornden Prize霍桑登奖 The oldest of the famous British literary prizes, founded in 1919 by Alice Warrender. Awarded annually to an English writer for the best work of imaginative literature, esp. designed to encourage young authors. About the novel Edmund Carr: an influential political columnist and bachelor who had devoted all of his time to the career, having little time to entertain himself before he decided to take the voyage abroad. Laura: an intelligent and warm widow and an acquaintance of Edmund Carr’s. Colonel: an Empire builder, who appear quite knowledgeable. Questions for predictions Suppose one has been informed that one’s days in the world are numbered, what do you think one may choose to do as the best option? What is the ultimate