Thursday, July 1, 2010

Reading Powell On Crosby Beach* Comments

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Shades are deeper here, less
Subtle than Aldeburgh;
This murky northern coast.
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Neil Young 06 July 2011

Actually, it is inspired by Neil Powell's poem 'Reading Proust on Aldeburgh Beach' featured in his last book 'A Halfway House'.

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Stan Petrovich 05 July 2011

Is it Anthony Powell? I enjoy the descriptions of natural formations, like I never expect in England.

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Stan Petrovich 05 July 2011

Don't know 'Powell' here, but it is very reminiscent of our John Wesley Powell, who led the first few expeditions into the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and whose writing style is rather similar.

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