Oh I though you meant in 2008 when that blog article was written :-) -
like in a re showing.
I discovered Houseman at a slightly earlier age than you anyway
though... I 'performed" all of /Terence /for a class in oral interp at
Northwestern U at , um, I think, 19. Now I can only get through a few
lines.. the first few and a couple of others later.. it still is a
favorite and Shorshire lad is somewhere on by bookshelf..but Terence is
in a collection of Modern Poetry that is rather tattered
a
On 10/20/2019 12:36 PM, Bob Pdml wrote:
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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
https://web.500px.com/photo/1004698223/layers-of-blue-by-Subash-Jeyan/
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