[lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: HC Reed

Judy Evans wrote:


> Goodness! I think of these poems as very Brit.

**Hmmm.  In the mid 1960s, poetry taught in American schools were 
relying upon traditional (the "classics"??) British poems.

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> SGC> We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
> SGC> In Flanders fields.
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> Yes -- it is genuinely haunting.  Poppies also grow in the fields on the slow
> railway line from London to the Channel Coast, and grew on the
> bomb-sites in the Bath of my very early childhood, and I love them,
> but still, these words go with me.
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**With respect to academia's usual anti-Vietnam, dovish sentiments 
during the 1960s (and even more so, later on in the 1970s), one wonders 
if the poems for us to study were deliberately selected...??

> Do you know "The Flowers of the Forest" (about the Battle of Flodden)?
>  Very different. But I find it a little haunting, too: I can hear a
>  piper's lament.

**Not before yesterday.  It is indeed haunting -- in the two versions 
easily located on the Web.  Thank you.

TC,

/Steve Cameron, NJ

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