JMBarrie
JMBarrie => Davies Family => Topic started by: geezjonathan on June 19, 2012, 05:23:40 AM
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Does any one knew where I can find Rupert's poem, The Pilgrmage of Thala, a legend?
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The Buxton family has given all the Rupert Buxton material to the library at Christ Church College, Oxford.
This particular poem is handwritten in a school exercise book with some decorations along the page borders, probably by Rupert himself. In my opinion, it is not very valuable as a poem. Rupert was only about 15/16 when he wrote it, and it shows. However, it does contain Rupert's fantasy of drowning and then passing into paradise. There is a cut out photograph from a magazine to illustrate the pool where Thala drowns which could be said to resemble Sandford. I firmly believe Rupert's and Michael's deaths were accidental, but acknowledge the strange situation where one man who had fantasies of drowning went for a swim with another who was terrified of water.
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Is there an electronic version of this poem and Buxton's other works? I noticed only a select few libraries have a copy of this text and they seem to be restricted as non-interlibrary loan eligible materials...
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There is no other version of The pilgrimage of Thala other than the manuscript copy held in Christ Church Library, Oxford. I wonder why this particular poem is attracting attention.