A lovely day when we spend an hour for each of our dead poets. Hardy and Betjemann feel particularly autumnal, while we have neglected the lighter side of life.
8 am - Thomas Hardy
9 am - John Betjemann
10 am - Christina Rossetti
11 am - Kirsty MacColl
12 noon (the lunch spot) A Lear and Carroll Miscellany
1 pm - Gerald Manley Hopkins
1.30 pm - Susan Womanley Hopkins (his lesser-known sister)
1.45 pm - Bernard Beastley Hopkins (the brother they tried to keep quiet about)
2 pm - The Scottish Hour: William McGonagall, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott
3 pm - The Welsh Hour: Max Boyce, William Williams, Dylan Thomas
4 pm - The South Midlands Hour: William Shakespeare, John Clare, John Dryden
5pm - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
6 pm - The People's Choice
7 pm - Dinner
Now, I want you all looking very smart and intellectual, and I don't want anybody misplacing the apostrophe in Poets'. Somebody came to our blog the other day having searched in Google for "Pedantry and Distraction". And that's not the sort of reputation I want to lose lightly.
Not much chance of that!
ReplyDeleteWell, thank you Ray. Glad to know we can count on your support.
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