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
http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
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From: "Judy Prince" <[log in to unmask]>
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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
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> 2008/8/25 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
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>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
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>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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