Dr Hart, thank you so much for this. You describe exactly what swirls through my mind and emotions when I hear Butterworth's music. The beauty of both the contentment and nostalgia touch me deeply; I feel like I can't get enough of it, but at the same time it's overwhelming and I can't take too much of it in at once. I wish he had lived to compose more. That war took so much from all of us - so terrible.
I do often get a powerful sense when reading pre-modern literature of skirting the edges of some undiscovered country (that of the writers, I mean, not the transcendent) which I would love to step into. Yet any attempt to actually get in stops short and it slips away. It is frustrating, but there's certainly a beauty in the mystery as well.
Speaking of lost worlds, I wonder if you have any recommendations for a good history of medieval Europe.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. May the new year bring peace and joy.
Thank you so much, dear David, beloved and blessed by Our Lady and the most Holy and unending Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with the all-encompassing and freeing Sophia interpenetrating and reuniting both Heaven and Earth here on Maryland's Lower Eastern
Shore! Your writings and thoughts have blessed us all this Christmas and New Year.
You’re on the lower Eastern Shore? A little nearer paradise, then, than most of us. Gosh, it’s almost a decade and a half since my last visit to the Delmarva peninsula.
Which translation of Le Grand Meaulnes would you recommend to a wretched monoglot like myself?
I believe the Penguin edition has a good translation.
Despite both names being vaguely familiar, I know nothing of the work of either Butterworth or Alain-Fournier. I shall rectify that forthwith.
Dr Hart, thank you so much for this. You describe exactly what swirls through my mind and emotions when I hear Butterworth's music. The beauty of both the contentment and nostalgia touch me deeply; I feel like I can't get enough of it, but at the same time it's overwhelming and I can't take too much of it in at once. I wish he had lived to compose more. That war took so much from all of us - so terrible.
Blessed Nativity to you & yours.
Dana
Blessed Christmas to you and your family!
I do often get a powerful sense when reading pre-modern literature of skirting the edges of some undiscovered country (that of the writers, I mean, not the transcendent) which I would love to step into. Yet any attempt to actually get in stops short and it slips away. It is frustrating, but there's certainly a beauty in the mystery as well.
Speaking of lost worlds, I wonder if you have any recommendations for a good history of medieval Europe.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. May the new year bring peace and joy.
An early gift of too late receiving, this is a golden plum. Thank you. And a blessed beginning to you and yours as well /*\
David Clark McAlpin,
Thank you so much, dear David, beloved and blessed by Our Lady and the most Holy and unending Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with the all-encompassing and freeing Sophia interpenetrating and reuniting both Heaven and Earth here on Maryland's Lower Eastern
Shore! Your writings and thoughts have blessed us all this Christmas and New Year.
You’re on the lower Eastern Shore? A little nearer paradise, then, than most of us. Gosh, it’s almost a decade and a half since my last visit to the Delmarva peninsula.