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Strafford Notes, 28 August, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 9:56:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

A bit of poetry and information of a nature lit'rary, from the keyboard of friend and scribe Skip

August 28
Events:
August 28th UNH Freedom Café’, Perform For Freedom Fall Kick-off event.7:30 Three 20-minute sets by pre-registered Acts. 8:40 we start the Open Mic portion of the evening. This lasts "officially" until 9:30 located in the Lighthouse Building, Registration is simple: e-mail our coordinator, David Adams (dja4324.gmail.com). 10 Mill Road, adjacent to the UNH Campus. seanspeaks.gmail.com

Born:
0828
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 –March 22, 1832) German poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, and natural philosopher
http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/search/label/Goethe
http://www.amazon.com/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe/e/B001KIOIEU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_4?qid=1377682418&sr=8-4
Thomas Aird (28 August 1802 –1876), Scottish poet
http://allpoetry.com/Thomas_Aird
Very Jones (1813- May 8, 1880) USA American poet and mystic
http://theotherpages.org/poems/very01.html#3
J.oseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) Irish journalist, novelists, and short story writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/lefanu.htm
Count Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828– 11/07/1910) Russian writer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866243/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ltolstoi.htm
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (1853 - Feb 2, 1939) Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect
http://www.shukhov.org/shukhov.html
Ivor Gurney (1890-Dec 26, 1937 ) Eng musician & poet War's Embers

Beauty

I cannot live with Beauty out of mind.
I search for her and desire her all the day;
Beauty, the choicest treasure you may find,
Most joyous and sweetest word his lips can say.
The crowded heart in me is quick with visions
And sweetest music born of a brighter day.

But though the trees have long since lost their green
And I, the exile, can but dream of things
Grown magic in the mind; I watch the sheen
Of frost, and hear the song Orion sings.
Yet O, the star-born passion of Beethoven,
Man's consolation sung on the quivering strings.

Beauty immortal, not to be hid, desire
Of all men, each in his fashion, give me the strong
Thirst past satisfaction for thee, and fire
Not to be quenched . . . . O lift me, bear me along,
Touch me, make me worthy that men may seek me
For Beauty, Mistress Immortal, Healer of Wrong

Ivor Gurney

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWgurney.htm

Sir John Betjeman (1906– 05/19/1984) English writer ( P.L. Eng 1927 ) Summoned By Bells
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-betjeman
http://www.johnbetjeman.com/
http://www.betjemanpoetrycompetition.com/john-betjeman/john-betjemans-poems/
William Robertson Davies (1913 - December 2, 1995) Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Fifth Business
http://www.amazon.com/Robertson-Davies/e/B000APOR1I
Nene Janet Paterson Clutha Janet Frame (1924- Jan.29, 2004) New Zealand novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer
http://janetframe.org.nz/default.htm
http://slightlyframous.blogspot.com/
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=15787
Rita Dove (1952- ) Afro-Amer poet 7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry1987
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dove/onlinepoems.htm
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd7
http://www.afropoets.net/ritadove.html

Passed:
0828
St. Augustine the Blessed (Nov 13, 354 –430),Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/28/2013
http://www.ccel.org/a/augustine/confessions/
(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (10/19/1784 –1859) Englis h writer Story of Rimini
An Angel in the House
How sweet it were, if without feeble fright,
Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight,
An angel came to us, and we could bear
To see him issue from the silent air
At evening in our room, and bend on ours
His divine eyes, and bring us from his bowers
News of dear friends, and children who have never
Been dead indeed,--as we shall know forever.
Alas! we think not what we daily see
About our hearths,--angels that are to be,
Or may be if they will, and we prepare
Their souls and ours to meet in happy air;--
A child, a friend, a wife whose soft heart sings
In unison with ours, breeding its future wings.
James Henry Leigh Hunt

David Wright, (Feb 23, 1920 -1994) S.African/ Brit poet,
http://www.amazon.com/David-Wright/e/B001HCWRHO
Sites:
http://www.limerock.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=666:we-want-you-in-the-sports-race-car-parade&catid=25:latest-news&Itemid=55
http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/dialogus/ockdial.html
http://www.petersloterdijk.net/werk
http://www.scenichudson.org/parks/poetswalk
http://www.classicshorts.com/author.html
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158002563368;view=1up;seq=16
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/music-review-another-portrait-bob-dylan

History:
0828
1917- Ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1963 – Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
http://www.goffstownlibrary.com/
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130828/DA8EQ5881.html
1965 - Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guitar at a concert in New York's Forest Hills Dylan played the first set solo and was backed by a band consisting of Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Harvey Brooks and Al Kooper in the second set.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=14761
Bonus Poem:
A Poet's Wife

I saw a tract of ocean locked in-land
Within a field's embrace--
The very sea! Afar it fled the strand
And gave the seasons chase,
And met the night alone, the tempest spanned,
Saw sunrise face to face.
O Poet, more than ocean, lonelier!
In inaccessible rest
And storm remote, thou, sea of thoughts, dost stir,
Scattered through east to west,--
Now, while thou closest with the kiss of her
Who locks thee to her breast.

Alice Meynell

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