Dymock - Forest ? (General)

by jhopkins , Sunday, March 03, 2013, 02:14 (4278 days ago) @ Jefff

Well, what a lot of treasure to absorb.

Jefff, I enjoyed looking through the photos in your first link. If you ignore the built structures in the photos, the environment looks very like the countryside near where I live in the South Island. You can see that our ancestors from Britain really tried to make our landscape look like what they called "Home" (when I was a youngster, Britain was still commonly referred to as "Home", and it is only in the last 20 years the usage seems to have gone).

Jefff and peteressex: I had not heard of the Dymock poets as a group. I have read the works of two of them without knowing they were part of a 'collective' identity (apart that is from 'the war poets'). I was intrigued by the connection of at least one of them to Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murray. I have lived near two of Katherine Mansfield's family homes in Wellington, and she is an important part of our national consciousness. Interesting that the last remaining pub in Dymock is the Beauchamp Arms; Beauchamp being Katherine's family name. I will have to check to see if her family is linked to Dymock.

Thank you both very much - you can only see so many things on a total of two and a half months in Britain, and I missed out on seeing some beautiful places...