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From: "Georgina Boyes" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Julia Bishop" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Reynardine
Date sent: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:41:36 +0100
It's a small point, but bears out Chris Coe's comments on A. L. Lloyd's
re-working of songs that he sang. One of the most evocative lines in his
version of Reynardine is the setting -
'One evening as I rambled
Among the springing thyme....'
It's not a usual opening format and in fact 'among the springing thyme' is a
quote from A E Housman's 'Breedon Hill'. Given the poem's subject is the
death of a young woman, Lloyd's inclusion of a line in Reynardine is a
lovely bit of intertextuality - if unacknowledged by it's creator.
Georgina Boyes
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