I suspect so too, Sally, paper was +expensive+, even if you were rich.
2008/8/26 Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>:
> I think it s quite likely they meant composing in the head. they didnt have
> much paper to waste.
> Sally
> Sally Evans
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:52 AM
> Subject: Re: composing on horseback
>
>
>> It's the actual physical writing on horseback I can't get my head
>> around. He must have had a horse with the temperament of a table.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Sally Evans
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I find composing on horseback very credible because I often compose while
>>> driving. Of course you cant write anything down until you stop!
>>> Sally Evans
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>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Prince"
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:06 AM
>>> Subject: Re: composing on horseback
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sorry, all; I forgot to credit the source I've just quoted. It's John
>>>> Aubrey [1626-1697], _The Natural History of Wiltshire_, Pt II, Chapter
>>>> VIII,
>>>> "The Downes" [Salisbury Plaines].
>>>> Phillip Sidney died in 1586; his sister Mary, Countess of Pembroke died
>>>> in
>>>> 1621.
>>>>
>>>> Judy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2008/8/25 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>
>>>>> Candice
>>>>>
>>>>> would Sir Pip actually known about Beowulf.? Chaucer, Gower, yes, but
>>>>> that? To me, the whole thing smells of Elizabethan publicity stunt
>>>>>
>>>>> PR began a long time ago.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2008/8/26 MC Ward <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>> > I wonder if Sydney et al. weren't parodying the Beowulf sequence >
>>>>> > where
>>>>> the scribe composes on horseback as Hrothgar and Beowulf go in search
>>>>> of
>>>>> Grendel's mother. I say "composes" because that term allows for both
>>>>> unlettered and literate poets. This one is composing in his head as he
>>>>> rides
>>>>> along on his honorific horse, knowing that whatever way the match goes
>>>>> he
>>>>> need only to follow and do some rearranging of the action at the end of
>>>>> the
>>>>> day.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Candice
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> David Bircumshaw
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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