[lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: HC Reed
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:21:12 +0100
Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 3:11:02 PM, Steven G. Cameron wrote:
SGC> **Hmmm. In the mid 1960s, poetry taught in American schools were
SGC> relying upon traditional (the "classics"??) British poems.
That surprises me.
SGC> **With respect to academia's usual anti-Vietnam, dovish sentiments
SGC> during the 1960s (and even more so, later on in the 1970s), one wonders
SGC> if the poems for us to study were deliberately selected...??
Perhaps. The poetry I studied was far more varied, and at grammar
school, tended to be dictated by the (Welsh) exam. board.
>> 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.
SGC> **Not before yesterday. It is indeed haunting -- in the two versions
SGC> easily located on the Web. Thank you.
The version I think of doesn't seem to be on the web, but the ones
there are very like it. Reading them (I usually think simply of the
refrain) I realised it wasn't an anti-war poem, really. (I think!)
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