tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post3381050456741230936..comments2024-03-26T18:01:57.609+00:00Comments on Inky Fool: Sir Charles SedleyM.H. Forsythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-9300685307382206192020-03-29T17:02:04.025+01:002020-03-29T17:02:04.025+01:00How are others interpreting the lines "For th...How are others interpreting the lines "For the whole sex can but afford, the handsome and the kind"CarolineLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375839225124716741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-21751767386712679792014-10-14T10:10:29.434+01:002014-10-14T10:10:29.434+01:00There was. Rather puts our modern parliamentarians...There was. Rather puts our modern parliamentarians to shame.<br />M.H. Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-91069790837546497172014-10-14T09:48:09.604+01:002014-10-14T09:48:09.604+01:00Was there not that unfortunate business about Char...Was there not that unfortunate business about Charlie Sedley getting his todger out at Oxford Kate's, urinating in a wine glass & toasting the King's health with it in 1663?streonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07475453570197346946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-4791009017730696002010-06-01T14:42:32.071+01:002010-06-01T14:42:32.071+01:00Thank you, Antipodean. I was misremembering the al...Thank you, Antipodean. I was misremembering the alternative title: Japing Jesus and mixing it up with Bacon/Huxley's Jesting Pilate.M.H. Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-69248582432161744642010-06-01T06:46:56.771+01:002010-06-01T06:46:56.771+01:00Well, thanks to the internet and a lurgi which has...Well, thanks to the internet and a lurgi which has confined me to my couch, I now know that Aldous Huxley wrote a travel book called "Jesting Pilate." Apparently the title is a reference to himself, travelling the world asking 'What is Truth?,' but I suspect that's not what you were after. <br /><br />I think it's probably this:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Japing_Jesus" rel="nofollow">The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus.</a><br />I do like the line: "what's bred in the bone cannot fail me to fly." I also like the idea of a cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus. As with much that is mildly blasphemous, it is also mildly catechetical. <br /><br />Among other things, Gogarty also write a short play called 'A Serious Thing,' which I rather enjoyed. Irish political commentary meets Life of Brian, or, in this case, Lazarus.The Antipodeannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-38853852187776156282010-05-31T15:56:21.057+01:002010-05-31T15:56:21.057+01:00I studied Rochester at uni ten years ago. I can s...I studied Rochester at uni ten years ago. I can still remember the relish with which my tutor read out the poems. I think he only chose Rochester so's he could say all those words in front of young women. Lost on me, because I was 38.Fran Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07935088780461825341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-15536719715803821462010-05-31T15:27:52.414+01:002010-05-31T15:27:52.414+01:00Thank you, Dogberry. That's ten poets of note,...Thank you, Dogberry. That's ten poets of note, then. Shall I list the other ninety?<br /><br />Gamliel Braford, Herschell Bek, Walta Karsner, Fredegond Shove ... with names like that, how could they be anything other than poets?<br /><br />As for your expletive-ridden posts: haven't we established they are Anglo-Saxon culinary terms?Moptophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03043271018134053860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-43708542676148381302010-05-31T14:44:46.925+01:002010-05-31T14:44:46.925+01:00Moptop,
Oliver St John Gogarty was stately, plump ...Moptop,<br />Oliver St John Gogarty was stately, plump Buck Mulligan in Ulysses. He wrote a good poem called something like "The Ballad of Jesting Pilate", although I can't remember the title exactly/find it on the internet.<br />He also once said that "Nobody swims in Dublin Bay, they just go through the motions."<br /><br />I'm slightly concerned that Blogger will start making this an adults-only blog. I may start st*rring my expletives. Does anybody know the rules?M.H. Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-68988586469119896812010-05-31T14:34:14.750+01:002010-05-31T14:34:14.750+01:00A friend of mine employs the term 'delightfull...A friend of mine employs the term 'delightfully crass,' and I admit I considered applying it to 'chock full of cunts and cocks.'<br /><br />Unfortunately I've just read the rest of Rochester's A Ramble in St James Park, and apart from feeling the need to shower, the words are no longer quite so delightful. <br /><br />Which says something of its power, I suppose. That verse should've served as warning, but I thought the rest of it couldn't be as bad.The Antipodeannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-72612015066756430262010-05-31T13:48:09.690+01:002010-05-31T13:48:09.690+01:00There are 100 poets in my copy of The Best Poems o...There are 100 poets in my copy of The Best Poems of 1924 (Small, Maynard & Company) - as selected by the editors of The Observer, The Atlantic Review, Vanity Fair, The Golden Hind, the Literary Review etc etc.<br /><br />Only nine of them are ever referred to these days. Is it all that surprising that some fall by the wayside?<br /><br />Enlarged and free, the wings of Rhyme<br />Cannot outreach its purple air;<br />The generations of all Time<br />And all the lovely dead are there.<br /><br />- Oliver St. John Gogarty (Who he?)Moptophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03043271018134053860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-51396514381888656192010-05-30T17:37:54.453+01:002010-05-30T17:37:54.453+01:00"Cunt" is such a deliciously vulgar word..."Cunt" is such a deliciously vulgar word.Dr S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17841252320450369002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-10862101863399434092010-05-30T16:47:50.734+01:002010-05-30T16:47:50.734+01:00You and Sedley.You and Sedley.Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10892637441668897411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-24128694232046130522010-05-30T16:47:19.760+01:002010-05-30T16:47:19.760+01:00Beautiful.Beautiful.Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10892637441668897411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-64085551095257594182010-05-30T16:21:30.829+01:002010-05-30T16:21:30.829+01:00He was, of course, fired from the cannon, my preci...He was, of course, fired from the cannon, my precious.M.H. Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-43829727485396896892010-05-30T16:18:29.828+01:002010-05-30T16:18:29.828+01:00Vanished from the cannon, hmm? Probably wasn't...Vanished from the cannon, hmm? Probably wasn't very comfortable there anyway.<br /><br />One suspects a little gloating at the end there, more Gollum-like than Stalky-like. Fortunately that link is more than enough recompense. <br /><br />The biographical intrudes a little, perhaps, as with the subtitle of one of the pieces: WHOM HE FELL IN LOVE WITH AT A PLAY-HOUSE. There really isn't enough of that in poetry any more.The Antipodeannoreply@blogger.com