Tag Archives: John Dryden

Heroes and Homilies (4)

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(This concluding section wants to go in a number of directions which I resist here, but will try to pick up in subsequent posts. One is the idea that revisiting stories helps us to think about what story-telling is and … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Bede, Colette Bryce, Crete, Galen Strawsen, Gillian Allnutt, John Dryden, Lindisfarne, Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, Saint Columbus, Saint Cuthbert, Sean O'Brien | Leave a comment

Heroes and Homilies (3)

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(This third section is an attempt to bring the argument a little more up to date by using three contemporary writers as a means of categorising certain ways of working with old texts, what I call ‘diachronic translation’, i.e. within … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Alice Oswald, Burnt Norton, Christopher Logue, Gawain and the Green Knight, J.O. Morgan, John Dryden, Patience Agbabi, Robert Henryson, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, T.S.Eliot, The Aeneid, The Battle of Maldon, The Iliad | Leave a comment

Heroes and Homilies (1)

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(This talk was delivered in the summer of 2014 at Bede’s World as part of their lecture series, and to accompany an exhibition curated by Roger Wollen, ‘Myths, Memories and Mysteries,’ which focussed on a number of contemporary artists influenced … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Alexander Pope, Alice Oswald, Bede's World, Beowulf, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Christopher Logue, Ezra Pound, Gawain and the Green Knight, HOmer, J.O. Morgan, John Donne, John Dryden, Joyce, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lindisfarne, Patience Agbabi, Robert Henryson, Roger Wollen, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Simon Armitage, Tennyson, Testament of Cresseid, The Battle of Maldon, The Canterbury Tales, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Troilus and Cressida, Virgil | Leave a comment

A Turbulent Makar

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Bill Herbert

(This piece on Edwin Morgan’s Scottish Laureateship was written in November 2005 for a small magazine the name and a copy of which continues to evade me.) The idea of a poet laureate carries with it some interesting preconceptions. Although … Continue reading →

Posted in elderblog | Tagged Andrew Motion, Augustus, Ben Jonson, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Charles II, Creative Scotland, Doctor Johnson, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Morgan, Edwin Muir, Frank McAveety, George Mackay Brown, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iain Crichton Smith, Jack McConnell, James Hogg, John Dryden, Liz Lochhead, Michael Morpurgo, Norman MacCaig, Restoration, Robert Burns, Robert Crawford, Robert Fergusson, Roddy Lumsden, Scottish Executive, Scottish Opera, Sorley MacLean, T.S.Eliot, Virgil, W.S. Graham, Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: John Dryden

Heroes and Homilies (4)

Heroes and Homilies (3)

Heroes and Homilies (1)

A Turbulent Makar

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