Jill asks Would we say Wright was as great as Bradman ...
It is hard to compare between two sports, like poetry and cricket. There's
the one-day game in both, and the extended four day Test match. & the
politics and the favouritism and the ... any bribery? or anthology fixing?
But one thing bugs me about all this: why elevate poets above sports
players? It seems to happen often among my literary friends - they take it
as a badge of intellectual superiority that they don't watch or participate
in sport, wehreas I see sport as one of the best ways of keeping people
interested in staying fit. (I'd rather they got fit _before_
participating.) A walk, a run, a game of golf or tennis: these are great
places to get the poetic forces flowing. Oxygen to the brain, perhaps, but
general fitness seems to improve my writing. How about you?
My great motivators at present are deaths of people my age around me (heart
attacks in mid-50s), and watching a cricket team train ... They put
themselves through a lot more'n I could ever do! Sio off I go in a pathetic
walk or an attempted jog.
As to the greatness of Bradman, Wright and Hope: Bradman 1, Wright 1, Hope 0.
Andrew
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