From dtart at bigpond.net.au Sat May 26 22:32:26 2012 From: dtart at bigpond.net.au (Denise Tart & David Green) Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 15:32:26 +1000 Subject: [ilds] Durrell and White Message-ID: Dear Durrellians, of course you are all getting very excited about the big 2012 centenary conference to which, sadly, I am unable to attend due to the usual boring reasons. However, I bring to your attention that fact that Australia's most prominent novelist of the 20th century, Patrick White, lived the same years as Larry 1912 - 1990 and both had an abiding love of Greece and were in the Med. during the 1930s and 40s. I do not believe they ever met. White met a Greek, Manoli, and returned to Australia where they lived together in Sydney until White's death. Both white and Durrell had rich evocative styles and were transfigured by landscape and a higher metaphysical relation to it; they were both colonials who eschewed Britain for the med. They were both upper class (the whites still have large estates in the Hunter Valley and New England areas of NSW - indeed I once went to a tennis party and piss up at one their places near Armidale, can't remember why) and wrote of the modernist angst of the unfulfilled journey, the non linear plot, all that. In both cases, their best work was being published at the same time and, certainly in this country, read by the same sort of people such as my parents. cheers David Denise Tart - designing ceremonies Civil Celebrant A8807 16 William Street Marrickville NSW 2204 +61 2 9564 6165 0412 707 625 www.denisetart.com.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From charles-sligh at utc.edu Sun May 27 07:55:30 2012 From: charles-sligh at utc.edu (Charles Sligh) Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 10:55:30 -0400 Subject: [ilds] 1912 - 1990 :: Durrell & White & Glanville-Hicks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4FC24062.4090505@utc.edu> Bless you, David. We will miss you during the Durrell Centenary. That is an interesting observation about Patrick White's life years and his Centenary. In connection, I will also recall another 1912 - 1990 life -- that of the great Australian composer, Hellenophile, and friend of Lawrence Durrell, Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Our friend Jen Condon is busy doing live-rehearsals for the Durrell/Glanville-Hicks work, /Sappho: Opera in Three Acts/ . I hope that everyone will follow Jen's work and order a copy of the /Sappho/ CD when it is released later this Centenary year. We have much for which to be thankful -- especially for our friends, here and there, past and present. Charles -- ******************************************** Charles L. Sligh Assistant Professor Department of English University of Tennessee at Chattanooga charles-sligh at utc.edu ******************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From charles-sligh at utc.edu Sun May 27 13:41:39 2012 From: charles-sligh at utc.edu (Charles Sligh) Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 16:41:39 -0400 Subject: [ilds] 1912 - 1990 :: Durrell & White & Glanville-Hicks In-Reply-To: <177E4743EE9E44D898E9DC719FF2E71C@DenisePC> References: <4FC24062.4090505@utc.edu> <177E4743EE9E44D898E9DC719FF2E71C@DenisePC> Message-ID: <4FC29183.3050205@utc.edu> All of that is fine news, David. Australia seems to remain strong in readership -- confident and happy in its loves and likes. I will send you another email with addresses that might be helpful for your articles &c. C&c. -- ******************************************** Charles L. Sligh Assistant Professor Department of English University of Tennessee at Chattanooga charles-sligh at utc.edu ******************************************** From dtart at bigpond.net.au Sun May 27 12:50:44 2012 From: dtart at bigpond.net.au (Denise Tart & David Green) Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 05:50:44 +1000 Subject: [ilds] 1912 - 1990 :: Durrell & White & Glanville-Hicks In-Reply-To: <4FC24062.4090505@utc.edu> References: <4FC24062.4090505@utc.edu> Message-ID: <177E4743EE9E44D898E9DC719FF2E71C@DenisePC> Charles that news that PGH was a friend of Larry's is interesting. I did not know this. I am always keen on Larry's connections to Australia. He knew Roy Campbell, an Australian Poet, in London in the 1930s, he and Nancy received some rough hospitality from Australian Soldiers during their escape from Greece, he and white may have met in Egypt during the war - they probably read each others stuff in later years. Any the PGH link is good as I am writing an article for publication, hopefully in the Sydney Morning Herald, to commemorate Durrell's birth centenary. I have also approached a friend who works for the Australian Broadcasting Commission about doing a feature on Durrell. She seemed very keen. If it goes ahead I may have to take time off work to help make it. Have to get Larry's name out there again. Currently enjoying 'Spirit of Place' - intriguing. David Denise Tart - designing ceremonies Civil Celebrant A8807 16 William Street Marrickville NSW 2204 +61 2 9564 6165 0412 707 625 www.denisetart.com.au From: Charles Sligh Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 12:55 AM To: Denise Tart & David Green ; ilds at lists.uvic.ca Subject: [ilds] 1912 - 1990 :: Durrell & White & Glanville-Hicks Bless you, David. We will miss you during the Durrell Centenary. That is an interesting observation about Patrick White's life years and his Centenary. In connection, I will also recall another 1912 - 1990 life -- that of the great Australian composer, Hellenophile, and friend of Lawrence Durrell, Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Our friend Jen Condon is busy doing live-rehearsals for the Durrell/Glanville-Hicks work, Sappho: Opera in Three Acts. I hope that everyone will follow Jen's work and order a copy of the Sappho CD when it is released later this Centenary year. We have much for which to be thankful -- especially for our friends, here and there, past and present. Charles -- ******************************************** Charles L. Sligh Assistant Professor Department of English University of Tennessee at Chattanooga charles-sligh at utc.edu ******************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ILDS mailing list ILDS at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: