Great summation of the Cotswold village's fame. How much more English can you get?!
"Adlestrop was immortalised by Edward Thomas' poem Adlestrop which was first published in 1917. The railway station closed in 1966, however the local bus shelter contains a bench which was originally on the platform. A plaque on the bench quotes Thomas’s original poem which describes an uneventful journey Thomas took on 23 June 1914 on an Oxford to Worcester express. He did not alight from the train but his poem has immortalised the village throughout the English-speaking world ever since."
"The local bus shelter"! Not only was it an uneventful journey, but he didn't even get out! Dad remembered the lines - "no-one came, and no-one went". Love it.
Here's the actual poem. Dad misremembered it slightly, but I actually think his lines are better!
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- I am writing a PhD at the University of Glasgow entitled "The Poetics of Time in Contemporary Literature". My writing has been published in Type Review, Dancehall, Puffin Review and TheState. I review books for Gutter and The List. I am also an editor and reviewer at the Glasgow Review of Books.
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