Lake and Water: African Land and Water Verses.
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Date
1927
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Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd. London.
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Lake and War: African Land and Water Verse is a poetic collection that reflects Arthur Shearly Cripps’ deep spiritual, social, and emotional engagement with the African landscape and its people. Drawing inspiration from the lakes, rivers, and rural environments of Southern Africa—particularly Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia)—Cripps blends themes of nature, colonial conflict, missionary life, and moral struggle. The poems juxtapose the serenity of water and land with the turbulence of war and human injustice, revealing the poet’s sympathy for African communities under colonial rule. Rich in imagery and spiritual reflection, the volume captures both the beauty of the natural world and the ethical tensions of empire, faith, and identity in early twentieth-century Africa.
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Missionary literature, Poetry