Peasant woman: Rhodes (Poetry Magazine, December 1961)
Edward Lear in Corsica (New Selected Poems: 1983-2008)
Two excerpts
"I shall draw every day what's before me.
My spirit will put up a fight.
Not a thing on this island could bore me.
I shall map the behaviour of light...
And then, when the starlight is silent
Above the still murmurous sea,
I shall know I belong to this island
And this island belongs to me."
About John Fuller
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Postscript
In my chapter in "Tourism, Travel and Identity", I write about the word peasant (and the 'tourist gaze', in relation to the island of Corfu):
'It is worth asking when the word "peasant" starts to drop out of the twentieth- century tourist, travel and foreign residence literature.'
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