tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post5184555282495255908..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: Chaucer Conference Blogging (1a)This old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-1568429979991057572008-07-24T11:09:00.000+10:002008-07-24T11:09:00.000+10:00Great posts on the conference. Thanks.We marvelled...Great posts on the conference. Thanks.<BR/><BR/><I>We marvelled at the one room that would have been warmed; and had a debate with the guide book that said the chapter house was so named because there the monks would have had a chapter of St Benedict's Rule read to them. That can't be right, can it? Surely the chapter refers to the part of the church (i.e. the body of people), rather than the Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-69842729894640998622008-07-24T07:47:00.000+10:002008-07-24T07:47:00.000+10:00Yes. Not for this/ Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur.....Yes. Not for this/ Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur...<BR/><BR/>I was surprised, too, at how much I liked this when I read it again after many years. Glad it's struck a chord.This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-72484726728309139652008-07-23T23:42:00.000+10:002008-07-23T23:42:00.000+10:00You are doing the impossible and making me wish, i...You are doing the impossible and making me wish, if only momentarily, that I had stayed in academe. The conferences and their reunions and escap(ad)es with like-minded and convivial, congenial mates were always the highlights of that life. It's lovely to see you sounding in such very fine form again.<BR/><BR/>As for Wordsworth -- oh my lord, the grammar. The beautiful grammar.Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-66584937153259969132008-07-23T22:18:00.000+10:002008-07-23T22:18:00.000+10:00The joy of coming across poetry unawares - reading...The joy of coming across poetry unawares - reading Wordsworth,just then, was like re-uniting with an old friend - unexpectedly, it brought a lump to my throat. Thank you, Stephanie, for providing that moment - I am suddenly reminded why I study what I do, and why time occupied in gazing at storm-tossed trees (or ruined abbeys) is time well spent.sylviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16510898458772364730noreply@blogger.com