{"id":781,"date":"2009-08-27T00:25:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T04:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=781"},"modified":"2009-08-27T00:25:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T04:25:55","slug":"today-in-the-frye-diaries-27-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/08\/27\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-27-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Frye Diaries, 27 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-785\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/Dieppe.jpg\" alt=\"Dieppe\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/Dieppe.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/Dieppe-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1942<\/span><\/strong>: The recent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dieppe_raid\" target=\"_blank\">Dieppe raid<\/a>, which\u00a0was soon to be an\u00a0acknowledged disaster,\u00a0continues to preoccupy Frye (Canadian prisoners pictured above).<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[84] I resolved today to (1.) keep up my diary (2.) read all the books I own, before reading much else (3.) write Blake (4.) practise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldbergweb.com\/en\/magazine\/composers\/2001\/03\/287.php\" target=\"_blank\">Byrd<\/a>. Saw Beverley Burwell, who looks taller &amp; older &amp; tells me Jerry Riddell has gone to Ottawa for [censored]. He&#8217;s pessimistic about the war. Bickersteth&#8217;s letters home are mimeographed &amp; circulated &amp; contain many vicious comments about the War Office: full of antiquated crocks hanging on to their salaries &amp; avoiding being pensioned off on various pleas of emergency. He seems to feel that the German account of Dieppe as a foozled invasion attempt was correct: I&#8217;m not sure; it&#8217;s too symmetical. Of course if it proved only that Canadians are not cowards it didn&#8217;t prove much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1950<\/span><\/strong>: A day trip to Salisbury Beach, Mass., with Frye&#8217;s U of T colleague, Ruth Jenking.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[576] I find the Newburyport turnpike a bit dull, as a road, but Ruth talked easily, she was so relieved to get through with Harvard.\u00a0The one thing she got from her summer is some understanding of [John C.] Pope&#8217;s study of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/b\/OL11136287M\/Rhythm-of-Beowulf\" target=\"_blank\">The Rhythm of Beowulf<\/a><\/em>, which, incidentally appeared in 1942, the year of my <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=nb7zg22DxOoC&amp;pg=PA9&amp;lpg=PA9&amp;dq=northrop+frye+music+and+poetry&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=PaA39nUCSv&amp;sig=ZV1YwRp1aXDmzPfDp4yC5jE3q5I&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=SAKPSqvaGpO4NvLv9K8K&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Music and Poetry<\/a><\/em> article, and if I reprint my essays I may say that this article is a footnote to Pope&#8217;s book.\u00a0Or, in the words of the oracular cliche, I may not. Anyway, the proper way to read Old English is crystal clear to her now, and as it&#8217;s a revelation in itself she feels it almost makes up for a very dull summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tomorrow: the formal causes of literature and a young woman in a bathing suit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a01942: The recent Dieppe raid, which\u00a0was soon to be an\u00a0acknowledged disaster,\u00a0continues to preoccupy Frye (Canadian prisoners pictured above). [84] I resolved today to (1.) keep up my diary (2.) read all the books I own, before reading much else (3.) write Blake (4.) practise Byrd. 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