tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post5947630994179216958..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Dear companionsLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-9837979698144141612007-04-02T02:58:00.000+02:002007-04-02T02:58:00.000+02:00Agreeable touch of bitterness: I like that! And th...Agreeable touch of bitterness: I like that! And the Graves, of course.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-45719930697901208462007-03-27T13:21:00.000+02:002007-03-27T13:21:00.000+02:00I am much blessed in all of you!I am much blessed in all of you!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-43134969936164107412007-03-26T19:57:00.000+02:002007-03-26T19:57:00.000+02:00In the US he's known mostly for The White Goddess;...In the US he's known mostly for The White Goddess; his poetry isn't taught much, but I love his poem "The Portrait":<BR/><BR/>She speaks always in her own voice<BR/>Even to strangers; but those other women<BR/>Exercise their borrowed, or false, voices<BR/>Even on sons and daughters.<BR/><BR/>I believe it was he who once said that if poets were left to their own devices, all they would write about would be love and the moon.Richard Lawrence Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951947957345891398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-2219518790918755002007-03-26T19:55:00.000+02:002007-03-26T19:55:00.000+02:00Thank you for the "Valentine" gift ("and I the mai...Thank you for the "Valentine" gift ("and I the maid at your window, to be your Valentine" - chapter and verse, please!)<BR/>I really enjoyed and identified with this. We seem to have similar poetic tastes - Auden, Housman (those "blue, remembered hills").<BR/>I think it's about time I did a post on Larkin, too.<BR/>As to the book sort of staying in your possession - I have a copy of McCauley's "Lays of Ancient Rome" that came to me in that manner (and no, I don't feel guilty - it was this volume that sparked all my subsequent interest in Roman matters - all because an English teacher once read us "Horatius". I wonder if good teachers know how deeply they can influence their pupils. <BR/>"For their work continueth<BR/>Wide and deep continueth,<BR/>Greater than their knowing"<BR/>(again - chapter and verse?"Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-69271010888204739092007-03-26T18:41:00.000+02:002007-03-26T18:41:00.000+02:00Ahah! My Penguin edition of Robert Graves is ident...Ahah! My Penguin edition of Robert Graves is identical, green and equally worn. The only difference is that mine was priced at 3/6. Who would give sixpence for 35 years? I heard Graves talking on the theme of inspiration (his poem The White Goddess Page 172 of my edition, was what he called his talk), at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, a jagged rock of a man. The poem I best remember is Flying Crooked (page 81).<BR/> The butterfly, a cabbage white,<BR/> His honest idiocy of flight)<BR/> Will never now it is too late, <BR/> Master the art of flying straight...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-80475018450547192292007-03-26T18:07:00.000+02:002007-03-26T18:07:00.000+02:00'Catches fiercely at the surprised heart' - that's...'Catches fiercely at the surprised heart' - that's so lovely. I've never read his poems, but then I've never been into poetry much until recently, so perhaps it's time I did. And, yes, friendship at first sight is so much how I feel about many on my blogroll (though others, as in the flesh, took longer to grow on me).Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-10220292458069189182007-03-26T17:35:00.000+02:002007-03-26T17:35:00.000+02:00Lovely...your friendLovely.<BR/><BR/>..your friendCatalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-64610432129688194192007-03-26T15:28:00.000+02:002007-03-26T15:28:00.000+02:00Oh, I know this poem and like you have an old copy...Oh, I know this poem and like you have an old copy of his works. I shall dig it out of the bookcase tonight and re-read.<BR/><BR/>I bet your copy falls open at your favourite poems too.herhimnbrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01182397064631016552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-9774471524117815252007-03-26T07:54:00.000+02:002007-03-26T07:54:00.000+02:00Love the quote on 'friendship at first sight'! So ...Love the quote on 'friendship at first sight'! So much is written about love, so this is refreshing. Enjoyed your reminiscences of your youthful love of literature, that still remains. I can really identify with the 'inarticulacy' except mine was in regard to discussing my art! Haven't we surprised our former selves with our blogs!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com