Frost bitten
Blog Posted by
Janette Fisher: 7/6/2010 2:44:00 PM
As an englishwoman, when I was at school - all those many moons ago - I was taught the works of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, Masefield and so on and was never introduced to the poetry of American poets or those from other parts of the world.
I was having a meal out tonight with a very close friend who has been so supportive of my work and we were discussing our favourite poets/poems when she mentioned 'The Vale' by Robert Frost - a well known American Poet. I must admit I was ignorant of Mr Frost and his work and made it my mission on returning home to look him up on 'google' and was surprised and delighted by the poetry I was reading - what an accomplished and erradite poet Robert Frost was. I can sincerely say that I have been well and truly 'Frost' bitten and 'The Vale' will now go into my list of favourites too.
On reading Deborah Guzzi's blog tonight about Beatrix Potter - one of Englands most famous author's - I noticed that some soupers didn't know of her work, again, probably because they were never introduced during school years or because they have so many well known and famous authors in their own parts of the world, others fall by the wayside.
It seems such a shame that we can tend to concentrate on 'home grown' authors and poets rather than extend our knowledge of other countries writers.
I feel that as I writer, I can only grow by reading from the vast material that is out there in the world and I am now going to make a point of looking up famous writers from other countries to broaden my horizons.