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April 26th - Count Stenbock's Grave
But a few flowers, just a few upon my grave, that I may see That you sometimes thought on me who never cease to think on you Oh, it is dark, and dank and drear Dismal and dreadful underground, where the wind sighs unpityingly around, And the rain falls not softly like a tear - excerpt from 'All Souls Even' from The Shadow of Death: poems, songs, and sonnets To day is the anniversary of the passing of Count Eric Stenbock. I finally made that trip to find his grave... (I hope this is not over stepping the bounds and seeming too arrogant. I felft I either had to do absolutely nothing or something colourfully over the top) | |||||||||||
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Re: April 26th - Count Stenbock's Grave
I have yet to read any of his books, and I ache to read a biography.
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Re: April 26th - Count Stenbock's Grave
Oh, it looks so rundown and forlorn! And sadly, I don't even sense a former decadence about it.
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Re: April 26th - Count Stenbock's Grave
Wasn't there some talk of a fund to get the monument restored?
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Re: April 26th - Count Stenbock's Grave
The grave actually looks tidier than when I was there last (when the cross was still standing, albeit festooned in ivy.) I'm really pleased you found it Dan. The good Count would have approved.
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Re: April 26th - Count Stenbock's Grave
Stenbocks biography, Stenbock, Yeats, and the Nineties by John Adlard (1969) is a rather bloodless read. You'd think it would be impossible to make a bio of Stenbock boring. However, somehow Adlard succeeded. Stenbock is far overdue for a new biography. Hopefully his future biographer will have a bit more panache. | |||||||||||
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I pray nightly for a proper Stenbock biography.
Thanks for posting the photo of the grave, Dan! It's the closest I've come (as you know) to the real thing... Mark S. |
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Re: April 26th - Count Stenbock's Grave
Thanks everyone, (finaly something of interest to do near where I live)
Thanks fellows, (I'm glad Woodvale Cemetery was suitably picturesque and Victorian looking what with the lodge gates and carriage drive - it would have been really anti-climatic to have found it was just like an open field with all regular sized monuments. I think there has been talk of one for a while. I don't think it ever came to anything though. It's a shame - given the Brighton connection you would think there might be more interest. You'd think they could do something like a print on demand paper of his poems and use some of that money to start a fund. Wilum I assume you have seen: A Secret Kept - The Life of Eric, Count Stenbock and courtesy of Mr Russell: http://freepages.pavilion.net/tartarus/stenbock.htm If you plan to use the library systems to try to get hold of Stenbock (did you say you were thinking of doing that Freyasfire?) look out for the Garland Press edition of Studies of Death: Romantic Tales - apparantly it also contains quite a number of the later poems. | |||||||||||
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Re: April 26th - Count Stenbock's Grave
I know that a few years ago Durtro were thinking of putting together a Collected Stenbock which would contain all the stories and poems Durtro had previusly published. I don't know if it's still on the cards - presumably it would come out from Coptic Cat now. | |||||||||||
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