>The villain in the piece is Ted Hughes. Did he for love of country
bequeath his goods to the people? He did not. He went for the fast
buck and a big one. Ted was a bit of a wide boy, always on the make.
Being a farmer or a poet laureate won't net you much money these days.<
Well it did get him regular invites to Balmoral (he liked the fishing
there) and Charles used to consult Ted on spiritual matters (they both
being New Age types).
There's a new stained glass window in HRH's private chapel dedicated
to Ted's memory.
As for my similarities to Marge, I'll have to check my diary to see if
I have time to consider that, let's see, there's the conference on
surrealism and dada in Aberyswyth coming up, oh blow, I can't go, my
income support won't run to the fare.
And, yes, things do look as if they'll take a Chinese turn. I guess
we're in for interesting times.
(as Eric Hobsbawn's recent book ponders, one of the, erm, interesting
prospects is how will the USA deal with no longer being the world's
strongest economy.)
Best
Dave
On 18/04/2008, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The villain in the piece is Ted Hughes. Did he for love of country
> bequeath his goods to the people? He did not. He went for the fast
> buck and a big one. Ted was a bit of a wide boy, always on the make.
> Being a farmer or a poet laureate won't net you much money these days.
>
> The Americans have more money than us, and soon it will be the turn of
> the Chinese. Most art objects are moving East these days, either to
> china or Russia. Their taste is as probably as good as the next schmoo
> with too much money and a life spent dealing in containerised geegaws.
> meh. So it goes.
>
> Your first paragraph is ironic: I see you and Marjorie as being very
> similar in outlook. Differing outcomes maybe, but similar outlook.
>
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:57 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I knew this morning that I was too tired to put things well.
> >
> > I do agree that Perloff's way of looking at things is too one-sided. I
> > particularly distrust her seeming belief that poetry belongs to
> > 'specialists' for validation.
> >
> > We went to watch a re-showing of an old Wim Wenders' film tonight -
> > 'The State of Things' - the one where the avant-garde film-maker
> > discovers in the end that his project was financed by laundered money.
> >
> > While I learnt today that in 1997 the late Ted Hughes (Poet by Royal
> > Appointment) sold his own archives (all 2 and half tons of them) to
> > the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
> > The purchase for the acquisition came from a bequest of Coca-Cola
> > shares.
> >
> > It's the real thing. Laughter, that is.
>
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