tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post6311463610062094663..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: Time for a touch of the DTsRichard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-44455040138866050952012-08-23T09:00:00.244+01:002012-08-23T09:00:00.244+01:00
Anagnostis - you may well be right about Dylan. I...<br />Anagnostis - you may well be right about Dylan. I also think that his wife, Caitlin, was the cause of much of his grief (and drinking). But, Roy Campbell was a drinking companion so there must have been some good in the man. And, yes, RS is a great poet also.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-35683298805971914732012-08-22T19:24:00.950+01:002012-08-22T19:24:00.950+01:00(clipped my last sentence) - It was also observed ...(clipped my last sentence) - It was also observed of Thomas that he wrote so wonderfully of his childhood and adolescence because he'd noticed nothing since. These criticisms are hard to swallow, but they leave a disturbing taste in the mouth. Wales need not repine, though - you can boast another great modern poet I never hesitate to trust - Thomas's namesake "RS" - a better man by far.Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-35292359358097578922012-08-22T19:14:10.154+01:002012-08-22T19:14:10.154+01:00Richard - this post chimes with something that'...Richard - this post chimes with something that's been bothering me a lot, lately. I also love DT's poetry, but it's undeniable that he was a very nasty little man. I also love the blues (I have nearly as many guitars as fingers for playing it on) but only recently, for some reason, the nastiness of many of its most illustrious practitioners has begun to disturb me. Knowing the tree by its fruits and all that. Quite recently I annoyed some good Catholics by suggesting that filling churches with artwork by conspicuously and unrepentantly immoral people (e.g. Caravaggio) might not have been such a great idea. One would never entrust the composition of a liturgical text to such a person, so why liturgical art? <br /><br />Perhaps we're all trying to live with a 'divided heart' - or perhaps I'm just getting puritannical in middle age. It bothers me nevertheless. I remember Evelyn Waugh noting somewhere that DG Rosetti's failure to realise his early promise was essentially moral.Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-55991927316778641922012-08-22T11:30:39.364+01:002012-08-22T11:30:39.364+01:00Impossible not to love Thomas's poetry at its ...Impossible not to love Thomas's poetry at its best, and the poetic debt to Hopkins is clear.<br /><br />Thanks - I had forgotten this one.Left-footerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18154175028539882422noreply@blogger.com