tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post2422751855836073510..comments2023-11-20T10:17:40.928+00:00Comments on Good in Parts: In all things thee to seeKathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171138485811816831noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-15670839064246546472008-02-29T10:59:00.000+00:002008-02-29T10:59:00.000+00:00Rhys my friend - having done 10 gruelling years as...Rhys my friend - having done 10 gruelling years as a rural Reader I totally take your point...but my enthusiasm is for the poetry (which seems to me to deal with the sort of struggles and joys that are very much the stuff of my life)rather than with the iconic model of priesthood that GH seems to have become...I don't honestly care where he was writing, I'm just glad he wrote (and grateful for those curates of his, if they existed, whose sheer hard slog gave George the time to write some words that have really helped me).<BR/>I hugely admire Woodbine Willy's life and work too...though I don't think his poetry is as great, the man clearly was.Kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09171138485811816831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-78991466816036062882008-02-28T16:56:00.000+00:002008-02-28T16:56:00.000+00:00I bet you my parish quota that Kathryn you are mar...I bet you my parish quota that Kathryn you are marvellous but George Herbert - please for the sake of us rural clergy can we take a less reverential view of him- How many curates did he have in order to have time to write his poetry?<BR/><BR/>I hope woodbine willy (1st World war army chaplain) has the same treatment at robinsons college as George HerbertAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-72857484534632655842008-02-28T11:33:00.000+00:002008-02-28T11:33:00.000+00:00The one thing you shoudl NEVER say to a friend is,...The one thing you shoudl NEVER say to a friend is, "Told you so..." (so i won't) but you were MARVELLOUSmaggihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07246507654740964519noreply@blogger.com