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markkeville

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katy k. 04/01/2022 18:34
Successful format an wonderful Blue Tones!!!greetings Katy
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- markkeville 04/01/2022 23:39
  Well,
  It was a nice sky - back in the autumn.
  Since you mention the blue -
  The famous, celebrated poet of Shropshire was A E Housman.
  This, below, is one of his most popular poems.
  
  Blue Remembered Hills
  
  Into my heart an air that kills
  From yon far country blows:
  What are those blue remembered hills,
  What spires, what farms are those?
  
  That is the land of lost content,
  I see it shining plain,
  The happy highways where I went
  And cannot come again.
  
  End.
  
  From that poem - the phrase "blue, remembered hills" has become something of a "catchphrase" - used, and re-used in literature and film.
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- katy k. 05/01/2022 8:19
  Nice poem! I will google Housmann. One of My favourites is Wordsworth „Daffodiles“ ;-)
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- markkeville 05/01/2022 9:43
  Although your English language must be very good (it seems to me), Housman is very English - with words, beats and rhymes - which are very effective, in English. And - although he is a later poet than Wordsworth (daffodils), (Housman's life was 1859 - 1936), like Wordsworth, he uses quite old-fashioned, poetic, vocabulary ('Tis for "it is"), and so forth.
  
  Last year - I ordered - for a german friend - the one, available german translation of housman's poetry - through amazon.de.
  (But I don't think this friend is a lover of poetry !)
  
  Perhaps you can access good german translations , as well as looking at the English version, through the internet.
  
  Through his use of place-names - of all English poets - Housman is the one who seems to have created his own "poetic landscape" - that is - infusing a specific landscape scene , always in and around Ludlow in Shropshire, with an emotional and philosophical response.
  
  Another two of his poems are
  "Far in a western brookland", and
  "In valleys of springs and rivers, By Ony and Teme and Clun".
  
  Finally - last year - when my wife and i were on holiday in Shropshire - I bought a local book in which an amateur photographer , Gareth B Thomas, had photographed landscapes to accompany the Housman poems.
  The book is a delight.
  
  I am a bit of an Housman fan.
  
  mark
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