tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post5374382617187263701..comments2024-03-29T10:02:55.374+00:00Comments on Nigeness: 'There, intact, were various objects all familiar...'Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-15366023742436639092017-12-13T21:49:32.433+00:002017-12-13T21:49:32.433+00:00Ah Gracie Fields - a voice to flee from, if ever t...Ah Gracie Fields - a voice to flee from, if ever there was one...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-17290607079659479812017-12-13T10:31:32.807+00:002017-12-13T10:31:32.807+00:00This time in Italy/Rome and thereabouts - includi...This time in Italy/Rome and thereabouts - including the year after the cessation of hostilities in Europe - is also rather evocatively written up by Spike Milligan in his memoirs. He doesn't say much about Keats, but he has some funny passages about his attempts to avoid Gracie Fields.Newman B Ryderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16646789305917357575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-80612563864343295172017-12-11T11:46:11.631+00:002017-12-11T11:46:11.631+00:00Interesting - I didn't know about Bedhampton.
...Interesting - I didn't know about Bedhampton.<br />Our local Keats landmark is the Burford Bridge hotel at Box Hill, where he stayed while he was writing Endymion. He was very taken with the hill...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-86778460718658847972017-12-11T08:48:57.941+00:002017-12-11T08:48:57.941+00:00Very evocative. In our neck of the woods the Keats...Very evocative. In our neck of the woods the Keats-Shelley Society have a plaque on the Old Mill in Bedhampton. Keats is reckoned to have finished 'The Eve of St Agnes' here and, later, spent his last night on British soil in 1820 on the way to Rome. His ship, come from London, docked in Portsmouth Harbour for supplies enabling him to make the journey to stay in John Snook's house (he was brother-in-law of Charles Wentworth Dilke, Keats' friend). The Old Mill, which was haunted by kingfishers on my last visit, is now a place where one can stay the night (with up to 14 others) for a price. Guy Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304053177188950094noreply@blogger.com