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Literary London starts on 1st October\u00a0and the Footprints of London Guides are talking about their favourite London literary connections. This time Tina talks about Chaucer and T S Eliot<\/p>\n

\"Chaucer<\/a>

Chaucer depicted in the window of the East crypt of the Guildhall<\/p><\/div>\n

Geoffrey Chaucer born about the year 1342 and died 25th<\/sup> October* 1400 is considered the father of the English language. An unusual choice at the time when French and Latin were the prominent means to spread the word by message, song, poem or to record business. This is one of the many threads that will be explored in more detail as part of\u00a0my Chaucer His Life and Work in the City<\/a>\u00a0walk. \u00a0Another great poet 500 years later would also walk in the footsteps of Chaucer, not deliberately but by default, as most of the medieval street plan remained as it was in the C14th.<\/p>\n

So T S Eliot is my second literary offering for the festival. He worked for Lloyds Bank on Cornhill and gives us a rather stark and uncomfortable view of the C19th City. Perhaps not surprising as \u2018The Waste Land\u2019<\/em> was written just at the end of World War I and published in 1922.<\/p>\n

Both men start their most famous works by intoning \u2018April\u2019 in the very first line to completely different effect. Generally we think of April as the period after a long cold winter when nature awakes and the weather gets warmer.\u00a0 Also April also has religious connotations, or an excuse to go out and buy more chocolate in the shape of eggs; or perhaps fast? Whichever is your preference, but Chaucer sets us up with cheery engagement:<\/p>\n

\u2018When April the sweet showers fall<\/em><\/p>\n

And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all<\/em><\/p>\n

The veins are bathed in liquor of such power<\/em><\/p>\n

As brings about the engendering of the flower \u2026.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, goes on to write of sun and nature awakening and the mood changing so you feel jaunty and spry and ready to go on pilgrimage to thank the Saint for your survival over the winter, the crusades or the sickbed. A positive move to action to prepare yourself for the journey you are about to take (also the reader) and the excitement of meeting new folk along the way, all with a story to tell.<\/p>\n

Whereas Mr Eliot, somewhat puts a dampner on the things very early on, if the title The Wasteland<\/em>, had not alerted you to \u2018beware who enter here\u2019, perhaps the title of the first part Burial of the Dead<\/em> might give you a whiff of what was to come. If that had not warned you then this certainly might:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018April is the cruellest month, breeding<\/em><\/p>\n

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing<\/em><\/p>\n

Memory and desire, stirring<\/em><\/p>\n

Dull roots with spring rain.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Where Chaucer was pleased to see the back of Winter Eliot felt it \u2018kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow \u2026\u2019 <\/em>As you can imagine there are plenty of critiques as to what this might actually mean.\u00a0 One is that it is deliberately a contrast to Chaucer\u2019s upbeat opening. Another, which I quite like, is reference to a poem by Rupert Brooke \u2018The Old Vicarage, Granchester\u2019 1912<\/em> \u2013 a delightful poem of childhood memory and the English countryside in springtime. Bookes died in the Aegean in 1915 a young and gifted man in his prime, struck down by war. A deliberate use of similar style perhaps, by Eliot, to compare what was, carefree days of childhood and what is now, the aftermath of a bloody and devastating war.\u00a0 The \u2018forgetful snow\u2019 covering the fields of death. There are two Wasteland walks on the 9th<\/sup><\/a> and the 19th<\/sup> October<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neither walk is long enough to explore all the many possible explanations of what is written by both of these great men, but I hope that bringing some parts of the works to life in the City of London itself will add that little extra frisson to any future readings.<\/p>\n

I just want to reassure you that we will definitely have a jolly jaunt with Geoffrey Chaucer and I promise you it will not be all doom and gloom with Mr Eliot.<\/p>\n

*25th<\/sup> October 2014 is the anniversary of Geoffrey Chaucer\u2019s death. There is a walk on this day.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/chaucer-his-life-and-work-in-the-city-of-london-tickets-12408342687<\/a><\/p>\n

\"St<\/a>

St Dunstan in the East which features in Tina’s T S Eliot walk<\/p><\/div>\n

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