From dtart at bigpond.net.au  Sun Aug 10 13:41:36 2014
From: dtart at bigpond.net.au (Denise Tart & David Green)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 06:41:36 +1000
Subject: [ilds] Shakespeare and Durrell
Message-ID: <0D0275CB7D144B1DA636CE1DA14EFDB0@DenisePC>

Recently I read some chapters from Peter Ackroyd's excellent 'Albion: the Origins of the English Imagination' in which there is a wonderful chapter on William Shakespeare. Now as you know Durrell was very keen on Shakespeare and the Elizabethans. Here is a passage that could has well apply to him as to the bard of Avon:

"It is well known that he depended on the plots, and even the words of others; he lifted passages from North and borrowed images from Ovid. There is hardly a play of his which is not established upon some earlier source, historic or dramatic, so that he corresponds to the English archetype; he seems most original when he borrows most freely. Like the language and the nation itself he is altogether receptive, taking up external and foreign constituents and moulding them instinctively to his own purposes." (p 222)

Then..

"the truest poetry is the most feigned" (p 222)

And..

" In his art of remembering and restoration, all the resources of his imagination clustered around words and images so that they were immeasurably strengthened and deepened; they became echoic with past and present life, instinct with powerful intuition which is the verbal equivalent of feeling, a once startlingly new and hauntingly familiar." (p 223)

David

Days fade
to a scattering of birds.
trees darken and
twilight bushes hold fairy stories
as people drift home
to fires and wine;
reality TV or 
leftover hours to kill,
the radio or Mozart,
dogs asleep upon the carpet
and books you always
meant to read
and know you never will.

David Green
16 William Street
Marrickville NSW 2204
+61 2 9564 6165
0412 707 625
www.denisetart.com.au
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From billyapt at gmail.com  Sun Aug 10 21:36:39 2014
From: billyapt at gmail.com (William Apt)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:36:39 -0500
Subject: [ilds] Shakespeare and Durrell
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The same with Bob Dylan's creative process, which I've been reading about recently.

WILLIAM APT
Attorney at Law
812 San Antonio St, Ste 401
Austin TX 78701
512/708-8300
512/708-8011 FAX

> On Aug 10, 2014, at 3:41 PM, "Denise Tart & David Green" <dtart at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Recently I read some chapters from Peter Ackroyd's excellent 'Albion: the Origins of the English Imagination' in which there is a wonderful chapter on William Shakespeare. Now as you know Durrell was very keen on Shakespeare and the Elizabethans. Here is a passage that could has well apply to him as to the bard of Avon:
>  
> "It is well known that he depended on the plots, and even the words of others; he lifted passages from North and borrowed images from Ovid. There is hardly a play of his which is not established upon some earlier source, historic or dramatic, so that he corresponds to the English archetype; he seems most original when he borrows most freely. Like the language and the nation itself he is altogether receptive, taking up external and foreign constituents and moulding them instinctively to his own purposes." (p 222)
>  
> Then..
>  
> "the truest poetry is the most feigned" (p 222)
>  
> And..
>  
> " In his art of remembering and restoration, all the resources of his imagination clustered around words and images so that they were immeasurably strengthened and deepened; they became echoic with past and present life, instinct with powerful intuition which is the verbal equivalent of feeling, a once startlingly new and hauntingly familiar." (p 223)
>  
> David
>  
> Days fade
> to a scattering of birds.
> trees darken and
> twilight bushes hold fairy stories
> as people drift home
> to fires and wine;
> reality TV or
> leftover hours to kill,
> the radio or Mozart,
> dogs asleep upon the carpet
> and books you always
> meant to read
> and know you never will.
>  
> David Green
> 16 William Street
> Marrickville NSW 2204
> +61 2 9564 6165
> 0412 707 625
> www.denisetart.com.au
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