Good morning Everyone! Ill be here today working on Novembers Pink Sheets. It will have my holiday recipes for fudge, candy, cakes and dips! Sounds good, doesnt it? My woodstove is going and I can smile! Enjoy your day. Its the birthday of British poet Robert Bridges born in Kent, England (1844). His collections include The Growth of Love: A Poem in Twenty-Four Sonnets (1876) and The Chivalry of the Sea (1916). He went to medical school at Oxford, and was a doctor at numerous hospitals. The whole time that he was practicing medicine, he wrote sonnets, poems, and plays. In 1913, Bridges beat out Rudyard Kipling to earn the post of poet laureate. He served during World War I and was asked to write many official pieces. Shortly after the war started, The Times published his patriotic poem Wake up, England! The war took a toll on him. He said: The war is awful. I can scarcely hold together. [...] Just at present I am far too disturbed to write, the communication with my subconscious mind is broken off. One afternoon, the elderly Bridges was visited by Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley. Woolf described their initial meeting: [Bridges] sprang from a rhododendron bush, a very lean tall old man, with a curly grey hat, [and] a reddish ravaged face, smoky fierce eyes, with a hasy look in them; very active; rather hoarse, talking incessantly. Robert Bridges wrote the lines: My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night: My desire and thy desire Twining to a tongue of fire Leaping live, and laughing higher; Thro the everlasting strife In the mystery of life.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:48:54 +0000
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