
Wrapt In a Brown Mantle
The line ‘wrapt in a brown mantle’ is taken from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. It is part of a section (lines 359-365) that was inspired by an experience Sir Ernest Shackleton had on one of his expeditions. Detailed in his book South, Shackleton describes how he was convinced that he and his colleagues were joined by an invisible… Read more →
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