tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post5261207699969985244..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: What's it all about, Alfy?TimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-67794965216545217702009-06-22T14:25:39.639+10:002009-06-22T14:25:39.639+10:00He's fabulous. I love his shorter lyrics from ...He's fabulous. I love his shorter lyrics from The Princess, and a lot of his mock medieval stuff, and even his umpty-tumpty-tum patriotic verse. And some of his lines are just so resonant: "Oh sorrow, live with me and be my friend...." etc.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-40349550261184625892009-06-22T12:57:49.576+10:002009-06-22T12:57:49.576+10:00Thanks for this. My father was a huge Tennyson fan...Thanks for this. My father was a huge Tennyson fan - I think T. was much better appreciated in the first decades of last century when my father was at school. He used to read the long mock-medieval poems to me when I was young: "It was the time when lilies blow, and clouds are highest up in air. Lord Ronald brought a snow-white doe unto his cousin the Lady Clare. I trow they did not part in scorn, for lovers long-betrothed were they. They were to wed the morrow morn - God's blessing on the day!" And of course 'The mirror cracked from side to side...!"<br /><br />I read Crossing the Bar at his funeral, and later at Uni (a very mature student, me) I returned to those poems and learned to read them all over again. I still love them.M-Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409916623998907121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-84429755006451386372009-06-20T21:09:27.046+10:002009-06-20T21:09:27.046+10:00This ere Chesterton I'm reading has this to sa...This ere Chesterton I'm reading has this to say on the matter, when Tennyson was only 100 years old: "But that Tennyson was a poet is as solid and certain as that Roberts is a billiard player. That Tennyson was an astonishingly good poet is as certain as that roberts is an astonishingly good billiard player." <br /><br />Not knowing who Roberts is, I can't say for sure, but it certainly sounds about right.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-73815463315800890742009-06-20T15:17:33.594+10:002009-06-20T15:17:33.594+10:00And we celebrated (?) the centenary of Algernon Ch...And we celebrated (?) the centenary of Algernon Charles Swinburne's death in April. Where are the Swinburne conferences, I ask you?Alexis, Baron von Harlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-7643454590862902192009-06-20T15:16:20.829+10:002009-06-20T15:16:20.829+10:00It's Errol Flynn's 100th today.It's Errol Flynn's 100th today.Alexis, Baron von Harlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.com