John Dryden and golf

A day with little Brontë activity on the net:

Conversational Reading devotes a post to the unenjoyed poet John Dryden. Quoting words of praise by T.S. Eliot John Dryden is compared to a well-known episode of Jane Eyre:

T.S. Eliot took a charitable interest in the case in 1921, but his contribution is rather reminiscent of Mr Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre enjoining the Lowood girls to be glad of their burned breakfast: ‘We cannot fully enjoy or rightly estimate a hundred years of English poetry unless we fully enjoy Dryden.’ . . .

As a matter of fact the Brontës were quite familiar with John Dryden. Check The Brontës of Haworth for a list of references to Dryden in the Brontë novels and books owned by the Brontës.

Rev Stan is visiting Yorkshire and shares some pictures, including Anne Brontë's grave in Scarborough.

We thought that we couldn't be surprised by yet another weird link between the Brontës and sport. Well, we underestimated the powerful imagination of some sports journalists. This is a chronicle of the ongoing British Open of golf:

One nice thing about the early rounds at a British Open — and this one was no exception — is that there are players in the field even a close observer of the game has never heard of. This year Alastair Forsyth was one. Didn't he write "Wuthering Heights?" Or Llewellyn Matthews. Probably the British ambassador to Samoa. (Walter Bingham in Cape Cod Times)

Categories: References, Weirdo