Edmund

My book has been published. A very very happy day. 'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience' cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-…

Digby Dolben. One of the greatest what ifs in English literature. He died at just 19 years old, but had already shown himself to be a remarkably talented poet.

Digby Dolben

'And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.' ~ Dylan Thomas, 'Do not go gentle into that good night' Recited by Sir Anthony Hopkins.

How to keep, indeed, how to keep beauty from vanishing away? The disease of mass tourism is runining the dearest inscapes.

'The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!' John Keats

PETER HITCHENS

No real writer would pick the latter.

if you don't think that I play "I am gall, I am heartburn" over and over in my head sometimes then you don't know me well at all

Townes Van Zandt is the greatest singer-songwriter. Including Dylan and Cohen.

IT IS THE BLIGHT MAN WAS BORN FOR

Which poem or verse by GM Hopkins are you particularly fond of? I'll begin: 'Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did Once encounter in, here coped…

Óur évening is over us; óur night whélms, whélms, ánd will end us. Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black, Ever so black on it.

And 'Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why.'

'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, Sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?'

"Heaven — Haven"