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
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> 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
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>
>> 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
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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