tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post8224052807506302533..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: What England Means to MeAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-25664550238365211502009-10-21T17:02:00.961-07:002009-10-21T17:02:00.961-07:00Yes, I read your blog on your visit with great int...Yes, I read your blog on your visit with great interest. Especially since you would have known the historical importance of the places you visited.Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-74671517354993393192009-10-21T15:58:57.503-07:002009-10-21T15:58:57.503-07:00I was in India this summer; it was such an adventu...I was in India this summer; it was such an adventure. In a way we have so many different 'homelands', Rehan, so many sources of inspiration.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-30598355289535304132009-10-21T11:40:14.786-07:002009-10-21T11:40:14.786-07:00These things stir my blood too. I passionately an...These things stir my blood too. I passionately and patriotically adhere to them. I don't know what that means if anything. I possess a somewhat subdued passion for India, my home country to which I have never been but that is little different from that I feel for Greece or Rome except that I know it is my heritage of sorts. This crisis of national displacement is another of the governing themes of the poetry of T. S. Eliot that is largely ignored or neglected. It came out as a prominent one when this very idea was being discussed last night at the Royal British Academy Literature weekend: T. S. Eliot with the sublime Sir Christopher Ricks and Marina Warner.Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-75657352810834596172009-10-15T16:32:00.029-07:002009-10-15T16:32:00.029-07:00Thanks, TRTK.
Yes, indeed-John of Gaunt.
You d...Thanks, TRTK. <br /><br />Yes, indeed-John of Gaunt. <br /><br />You do yourself an injustice. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-10175371900808625712009-10-15T12:58:18.721-07:002009-10-15T12:58:18.721-07:00Very nicely put, Ana.
The two speeches you mentio...Very nicely put, Ana.<br /><br />The two speeches you mention feature on my miserable excuse for a blog, the name of which I'm sure you'll recognise from a third, and possibly even more famous, speech by the same playwright...This Royal Throne of Kingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01847832884947135086noreply@blogger.com