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writes:\"Three dynamics contribute tomy work style-fascination with the beliefs and teachingsof the ancient British population;faith in the continuationof the human spirit apart from the span of life of the body;and poetic'telegrams'which seem tojump the time barrierafter emanating from sources anywhere between the IronAge and the establishment of the Saxon kingdoms.Eachdynamic reinforces the other two;and of course faith inthe spirit has never bound poets to present time but hasrather caused them to give equality of weight to past andfuture,with the ephemeral present reduced to the statusof a running rabbit.Contrarily it is the poet without faithin the human spirit who tends to concentrate the centreof his vision and technique on the rabbit,and to whommyth,legend and time-scale extension are unreal anduseless.  \nAlthough carrying a supporting paraphernalia ofreported events,this is no ordinary historical narrativepoem,but a literary enclosure for a real arena partlyreconstructed in actuality from the workings of race-memory or some other phenomenon.Boadicea herselfremains a character in the shadow;but I well know thatmarch of vengeance,with the moon through the oaktrees,love by the wayside,and the Roman on the groundsoaked with his foreign blood.For I was there in theperson of the warrior,my limbs were 2000 years young,and I was a servant of my Queen again”.  \nAYYL  \nWARRIOR OF THE ICENIAN QUEEN  \n\n| THE ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN  \u003Cbr>POETRY LIBRARY  \u003Cbr>1o5 PICCADILLY,LONDON.WV OAU  \u003Cbr>DATE DUE BACK   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 16 SEP 1976  \u003Cbr>6 AUG 198  \u003Cbr>N 1992   |  |  |\n\nWTHAWNOMTM ZTKY LRARY  \n“...great trouble in the kingdome grew,That did her selfe in sondry parts divide,And with her powre her owne selfe overthrew,Whilest Romanes daily did the weake subdew:Which seeing,stout Bunduca up arose,And taking armes the Britons to her drew;With whom she marched...”  \nEdmund Spenser  \n“...mighty in stature and terrible in aspect;her voice was harsh and her countenance savage;around her neck was a large golden collaror torque;across her bosom a parti-colouredvest was tightly drawn,while over thisshe wore a thick mantle fastened with abrooch or clasp;and her hair,which wasyellow,fell over all down to her girdle.”  \nDion Cassius  \nWARRIOR OF THEICENIAN QUEEN  \nA poetic narration of the memories ofan Icenian warrior who served in A.D.60during the Boudiccan revolt againstthe Roman legions  \n   \n## WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES\n\nBY  \nEric Ratcliffe  \nPrefatory Note by Rosemary Sutcliff  \nIllustrated by the author  \nThe Arts Council of Great BritainPoetry Library  \n105,Piccadilly,London W1V 0AUTel:01-6299495  \nORE PUBLICATIONS  \n1973  \nFirst published in 1973 by Ore Publications of Stevenage.Editorial only,7 The Towers,Stevenage,Herts.Trading,as press advertisements.  \nC Eric Ratcliffe 1973  \nPrinted by Derek Maggs22 Devonshire Road,Mottingham,London SE9  \nTo\"W\"  \n## INTRODUCTION\n\nIt is likely that the fire of the conqueror or the smoke of hisinstitutions,gradually strengthened by overlying tradition,often cast a pall to confuse our backward glances towardsearly British history.It could scarcely be otherwise;whatis important is that we recognize the inevitable and thateven the scholars can get lost in the mist.No doubt ifHitler had conquered,our grandchildren would belearning in the third form how Neville Chamberlainplunged the whole world into war,while WinstonChurchill would join Arthur as some kind of mythicalfigure not to be taken seriously.Again,if the priests ofAmun had performed absolute obliteration,Tutankha-mun himself would have been unknown.  \nWe have progressed away,but not very far,from thenotion of our early nation as once poor savages broughtto heel,education,dignity,and even cleanliness,by thestern,orderly control of Roman administration.In truthwe know of very few of our old gods and very little 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