I think it s quite likely they meant composing in the head. they didnt have
much paper to waste.
Sally
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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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"
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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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>> 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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