If Alison could sail as well, now *that* be perfection.
Roger
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> To be fair, the average horse was much larger then. And probably more
> docile. I have had a tiny bit to do with Clydesdales and when they wish to
> stop, they are stopped. Composing on horseback might have been possible if
> Dobbin were dozing in a field... But at a canter? Unlikely, unless one rode
> in circles, yelling each line to Baldrick at a pass...
>
> Alison - a champion blade and equestrienne?! Could one BE more suited to
> writing?
>
> Caleb (who works in what is 'affectionately' known as Gymkhana Corner within
> the ABC...)
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> > http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
>> > http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
>> >
>> > ----- 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
>> >>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> >>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> >>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> >>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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