tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post1836138215696608588..comments2024-01-23T12:27:05.258+00:00Comments on The Stone and the Star: Spain and Poetry 1: Poetry of the AlhambraClarissa Aykroydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-32768661345621278922013-10-11T10:09:59.461+01:002013-10-11T10:09:59.461+01:00I have yet to read the Washington Irving myself, t...I have yet to read the Washington Irving myself, though I bought a copy as a gift for someone else. As you can imagine, his book is everywhere in Granada, in Spanish and English and other languages. Actually, we also walked through the rooms at the Alhambra where he stayed - there is a plaque. <br /><br />I think in your setting, a mini-Alhambra might at least be feasible. :) I hope you can go some day. I doubt you would be disappointed. The fact that it has poetry on its walls just adds another wonderful dimension.Clarissa Aykroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-26449689689930763172013-10-11T01:26:46.105+01:002013-10-11T01:26:46.105+01:00The Alhambra, though I've not visited it, is o...The Alhambra, though I've not visited it, is one of my chief 'dream places', as I might call them. I periodically return to it in imagination, and in the pages of Washington Irving's fantastic book. As a very young man, when all seemed possible, I even had the very pleasant but really crazy ambition to build a much smaller version of the Alhambra here on some particularly Mediterranean California hilltop and spend the rest of my days there, doing all sorts of things, none of them remotely practical. Fortunately such wild imaginings no longer plague me, and I am happily left with the very real Alhambra itself to think of and perhaps to visit. Now you've given me the Arabic poetry angle, so I can really get started in a fine and adventurous new (and yet old!) direction. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com