The play was on TV here in 1979, I was only 22! I had another browse through A Shropshire Lad in a bookshop today. I like that elegiac Edwardian type of poetry.
B > On 20 Oct 2019, at 13:54, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > Bob, I hope you read more Houseman after that.. :-) seems you came to him > late. > > ann > >> On 10/20/2019 2:47 AM, Bob Pdml wrote: >> I first heard the phrase when I watched Dennis Potter's play of that name on >> TV. My introduction to both Potter and Housman. >> >> https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/jun/05/tvblogbypeterbradshaw >> >> >> >>> On 20 Oct 2019, at 02:47, Subash Jeyan <pdml.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> thanks Bob, appreciated. 'blue remembered hills", i have to use that >>> phrase somewhere :) seriously, the poem intrigued me with its air of >>> melancholy, i had to look up ae housman. an interesting life... >>> >>> thanks to all those who looked and commented.... >>> >>> >>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 20:33:47 +0100 >>> Bob Pdml <pdm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Very nice indeed. >>>> >>>> As A E Housman wrote, >>>> >>>> "Into my heart an air that kills >>>> From yon far country blows: >>>> What are those blue remembered hills, >>>> What spires, what farms are those? >>>> >>>> That is the land of lost content, >>>> I see it shining plain, >>>> The happy highways where I went >>>> And cannot come again" >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 19 Oct 2019, at 04:01, Subash Jeyan <pdml.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> https://web.500px.com/photo/1004698223/layers-of-blue-by-Subash-Jeyan/ >>> -- >>> > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
