writing - sometimes invisible
Suffolk Street cottage
I recalled the noise in the chimney as it were the wind in the chimney but was in reality Uncle William downstairs composing . . . at Stone Cottage in Sussex by the waste moor.
[Ezra Pound]
Pound was remembering the three winters (1913-1916) he spent living with William Butler Yeats at Stone Cottage near the village of Coleman's Hatch in Sussex: specifically, he recalls sitting in the second floor of the cottage and hearing Yeats chant his poetry in the room below - the chimney carried the Irish poet's brogue from fireplace to fireplace. When Pound wrote these lines in the ''Pisan Cantos'' at the end of World War II, he looked back to those Stone Cottage years as an idyllic time ''before the world was given over to wars.''
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Suffolk Street cottage
I recalled the noise in the chimney as it were the wind in the chimney but was in reality Uncle William downstairs composing . . . at Stone Cottage in Sussex by the waste moor.
[Ezra Pound]
Pound was remembering the three winters (1913-1916) he spent living with William Butler Yeats at Stone Cottage near the village of Coleman's Hatch in Sussex: specifically, he recalls sitting in the second floor of the cottage and hearing Yeats chant his poetry in the room below - the chimney carried the Irish poet's brogue from fireplace to fireplace. When Pound wrote these lines in the ''Pisan Cantos'' at the end of World War II, he looked back to those Stone Cottage years as an idyllic time ''before the world was given over to wars.''
further along in Why I love my Neighbourhood
~textures=mine+topaz~