the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Robert Hugh Benson : Vexilla Regis

'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine for a few of the books that Roland and I had admired and read together. "The Story of an African Farm" was there and "The Poems of Paul Verlaine", as well as "The Garden of Kama" and "Pecheur d'Islande". To these I added Robert Hugh Benson's Prayer Book, "Vexilla Regis", not only in honour of Roland's Catholicism, but because my mother had sent me some lines, which I frequently read and cried over, from Benson's "Prayer after a Crushing Bereavement":'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

Robert Hugh Benson : The Queen's Tragedy

'Rest and sleep upstairs[.] Read the Queen's Tragedy by Benson.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      Print: Book

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