Psst! Joanna, it all sounds very different in a streetwise Scots accent,
y'know. Even Wordsworth sounds quite good read in a Northern accent
(Bunting back in 3rd programme days)
mj
Joanna Boulter wrote:
> Aw come on, Robin, the man had a tin ear! Are we going to end up
> fighting a duel over this? I just don't understand how you can't hear
> that, considering how precise your ear is for Donne, Wyatt, and the like.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin"
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> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:02 PM
> Subject: Re: map of literature
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>
>>> Philistine!!
>>
>>
>> Who, me or Fitzgerald? Or both?
>>
>> I did try to read it once, and got as far as three pages in before I
>> gave up.
>>
>> It was something to do with the rhythms, which is maybe significant
>> as fairly central to Joanna and my disagreement over her (EBB's that
>> is, not Joanna's) husband was the nature of the rhythms.
>>
>> R.
>>
>>>>> Unless of course it's Elizabeth Barrett,
>>>>>
>>>>> Roger
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm inclined to agree with Edward Fitzgerald here, who on hearing
>>>> of EBB's death, remarked, "Thank God, no more Aurora Leighs."
>>>>
>>>> R.
>>>>
>>>>>> This will please Joanna Boulter ...
>>>>>
>>
>
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Lorsque le ciel s'obscurcissait, ta victoire toujours, lampe des signes! La chair moins nue de se savoir écrite et partagée. (When the sky darkened, always your victory, lamp of signs! The flesh less naked for knowing itself written and shared out.) - Claude Esteban d.10 Avril 2006
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