Thanks on the refs, Dominic. The work sounds (in a good way) ambitious and
rich and probably obviously inherent to your own wrestling match with demons
& such. Best wishes with the whole project.
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
> This is number 36 - a little early to be wrapping things up, in fact,
> as I have 14 more to do; although the grey cock in the folk song
> referenced at the end ("the burning Thames I have to cross") does crow
> somewhat prematurely. The Grey Cock is Child #248; there are versions
> by Charlotte Greig (on a CD called "Night Visiting Songs") and Eliza
> Carthy, amongst others.
>
> The reference to Patriot Holding Pens comes directly from James
> Kelman's "You have to be careful in the land of the free", which I'm
> reading at the moment. The Patriot's Heart is a song by Mark Eitzel.
>
> Dietrich Bonhoeffer more than half-finished his _Ethics_ whilst in
> prison, but was executed before he could complete it. His letters and
> papers from prison provide some of the background for "Christmas
> Trees", one of Geoffrey Hill's best poems. One letter mentions a song
> by Hugo Wolf, "Uebernacht, uebernacht", which could be described as a
> night-visiting song (it is about how "joy and sorrow" are sent during
> the night to test us). Hill strikes sparks off it elsewhere in
> _Canaan_ ("Overnight - overnight - the inmost self made outcast").
>
> Dominic
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