tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post6136439013778816500..comments2023-09-21T08:53:42.554+01:00Comments on blethers: Poets in a LandscapeChristine McIntoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-36566378028747971912011-10-23T22:58:52.255+01:002011-10-23T22:58:52.255+01:00it seems a long time since Latin A-Level - primari...it seems a long time since Latin A-Level - primarily the Aeneid Book 9 and Livy Book 6 for me. I didn't come across this book back then, but think I would much enjoy it now. Thank you for the recommendation.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-55836296332181176902011-10-23T16:31:20.040+01:002011-10-23T16:31:20.040+01:00O the hot summer of '62....I remember reading ...O the hot summer of '62....I remember reading this amazing book with a pure dizzy pleasure on the pebble beach at Cold Knap in South Wales while a gang of us were 'revising' . I remember translating the account of Aeneas' loss of Creusa in the Fall of Troy and being shaken with tears as if I knew them personally .<br />'Iterum iterumque vocavi...'<br />The power of the Word ......Thanks for the memory Chris xxClare Lockhartnoreply@blogger.com