Silbury poetry .

tiompan Dec 5, 2007 22:16:25

Wee story in todays gruniad concerning a poem written by Wordsworth's niece , Emmeline .The poem was contained in a time capsule buried in Silbury in 1849 .

Paulus Dec 5, 2007 22:21:05

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Lovely...

Littlestone Dec 6, 2007 08:55:24

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Mornin' tiompan.

You may have seen it by now but both versions of Emmeline Fisher's Silbury poem are now in http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba98/prerelease.shtml online edition of the latest British Archaeology Magazine. There are some differences in the first version of the poem left in Silbury in 1849 and the (revised) version published in the 1854 edition of the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine. Mike Pitts has highlighted the differences between the two versions (though there are some minor mistakes in the highlighting in the online page above).

I'll stick both versions on the Megalithic Poems thread eventually.

Littlestone Dec 12, 2007 18:58:40

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The earlier link to the online version of the British Archaeology Mag is no longer working. There's a new link here at - http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba98/fisher.shtml The minor errors in the comparison of the original poem and the one printed in the Wiltshire Archaeological Mag of 1849 (highlighted in red in the online version of the Brit Arch Mag - lines 5, 9 and 19) still seem to be there.