tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post2929819548550743425..comments2024-03-23T20:37:37.891-07:00Comments on First Known When Lost: "That Ringed-in Hour Of Pines, Stars, And Dark Eminence"Stephen Pentzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-91575087354272322492013-11-26T20:08:50.328-08:002013-11-26T20:08:50.328-08:00Ms. Aykroyd: yes, his work is very nice, isn't...Ms. Aykroyd: yes, his work is very nice, isn't it? Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of his paintings in person. I discovered him in a book about Scandinavian landscape painting in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and since then have found other works by him on the Internet. One senses the light and atmosphere of those regions in his paintings, I think.<br /><br />As always, thank you very much for visiting.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-13981873563864710022013-11-26T05:34:42.257-08:002013-11-26T05:34:42.257-08:00I enjoyed these poems, but this time I particularl...I enjoyed these poems, but this time I particularly wanted to thank you for drawing my attention to Harald Sohlberg's paintings. (I can't remember if I've seen them before, or not - possibly in passing, or while travelling in Scandinavia?) <br /><br />I absolutely love them - these ones and the others that I looked up!Clarissa Aykroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-71463646459618556842013-11-24T21:01:08.306-08:002013-11-24T21:01:08.306-08:00Bovey Belle: thank you very much for the thoughts....Bovey Belle: thank you very much for the thoughts.<br /><br />Gurney's poems often puzzle me, and I too go back and forth on what they may "mean." Given the reference to France in the final line, I lean toward your second thought. To wit: any hour alive after having survived the War was "pure clemency." <br /><br />"The Wanderer" is a recent discovery -- there is still so much to find that I haven't gotten to yet. I trust that Hardy may have spent a few nights under the stars himself, in addition, of course, to having often seen wanderers on the road.<br /><br />I'm pleased that you like Sohlberg's paintings. I'm intrigued by the fact that he returned to the same composition three separate times over the years.<br /><br />Thanks again.Stephen Pentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14882220887712092005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5010170380967519230.post-8617244470559514002013-11-23T11:00:40.861-08:002013-11-23T11:00:40.861-08:00Clear and very cold here too - especially this mor...Clear and very cold here too - especially this morning when the frost drove blood from extremities.<br /><br />Of course, I had to find Brimscombe in my Road Atlas, and have found it now swallowed up by Stroud. "This perfect moment had such pure clemency" - I wonder, was he forgiving himself? Or perhaps, like the Heaney poem suggests to me, he saw things reduced to the simplest structure and understood them and enjoyed a brief hour of freedom of spirit? I have read it through and through and reach a different conclusion each time!<br /><br />I have been dipping into Hardy's poetry recently, but this one eluded me. I am sure that in Hardys' time, many such wanderers would be abroad at night, sheltering in a hay barn and hoping for a day's work to help them forwards. I liked: "Sometimes outside the fence, feet swing past" - until no more folk - good or otherwise - are abroad and the wanderer has the night to himself.<br /><br />Such unusual paintings too - very atmospheric.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.com