"Close" n.- enclosure, an enclosed area, the precinct of a cathedral, a
narrow passage leading from a street to a court and the houses within or
to the common stairway of tenements.
Wishing you all that you wish for yourself,
Diana Robinson
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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:58:45 -0000
From: George Engle <[log in to unmask]>
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Q.1 Sir Henry Newbolt's early ballads (wrote Walter de la Mare in the =
DNB) "were naturally and at once labelled patriotic, and himself a =
nautical Kipling". [my italics] Is this documented?
Q.2 What precisely is meant by "the Close" in Newbolt's well-known poem
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"Vitai Lampada" which begins "There's a breathless hush in the Close =
tonight"? Newbolt was educated at Clifton College, and my guess is that
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the Close is or was a part of the college adjacent to a cricket ground,
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or perhaps the name of the ground itself.
George Engle
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