tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801834347959347.post7403709046913979212..comments2011-02-16T10:50:17.455-08:00Comments on On The Road With the English Teacher: Salinas: John Steinbeck's home and the National Steinbeck CenterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985663562917526518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801834347959347.post-9105075548706842532008-08-04T13:16:00.000-07:002008-08-04T13:16:00.000-07:00Oh - and I think you should go to Harford, CT - ou...Oh - and I think you should go to Harford, CT - our greatest poet lived there and worked for an insurance company there - old Wallace:<BR/><BR/>I care for neither fugues nor feathers.<BR/>What interests me most is the people<BR/>Who have always interested me most,<BR/>To see them without their passions<BR/>And to understand them.<BR/><BR/>From "Lytton Strachey, Also, Enters Heaven" - Strachey was part of the Bloomsbury group...<BR/><BR/>I've always loved Stevens more than any other poet, I have to admit - and I'd never read this poem until I was in Pensacola and I was checking out and there was this row of books including Stevens' "A Palm at the End of the World" and I opened it up randomly and was struck with awe again at his beauty and casual brilliance of the highest order.Sargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01602197604396266555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801834347959347.post-69152454628902036412008-08-04T13:08:00.000-07:002008-08-04T13:08:00.000-07:00I love Travels with Charlie - especially when he t...I love Travels with Charlie - especially when he talks about the interstates. And doesn't he talk about Paris in the '20s there - I found that surprising when I read about it - but maybe he wrote about that somewhere else.<BR/><BR/>I was jealous when I heard you were there - I always meant to see the things there but always just passed through.<BR/><BR/>Very jealous - reading your blog - I did do a trip to England/Ireland/Scotland once where I saw a lot of literary things (Dickens stuff, Samuel Johnson stuff, Joyce stuff, Shakespeare stuff, accidentally George Moore stuff, Wordsworth stuff, Boswell stuff, Irvine Welsh (ch?) stuff - which was scary, and Yeats stuff - among them) but yours is much more focused and pretty - I wish I had thought to fit in some in some Arthurian stuff - it's funny Steinbeck liked Arthurian legend so much since his stories seem so steeped in responses to the everyday and hardscrabble - but then his taste for allegory could certainly be partially a product of Arthurian romance...Sargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01602197604396266555noreply@blogger.com