{"id":8187,"date":"2022-09-21T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T10:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2022-09-21T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T10:21:39","slug":"monumental-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/09\/21\/monumental-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Monumental Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"

There's a lot I could write about the death of Queen Elizabeth. \u00a0But I'm limiting myself to two brief acknowledgements of her greatness.<\/p>\n

Here's Philip Larkin:<\/p>\n

In times when nothing stood<\/em>
\nBut worsened, or grew strange,<\/em>
\nThere was one <\/em>constant<\/em> good:<\/em>
\nShe did not change.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And here's Ted Hughes:<\/p>\n

A nation's a soul <\/em>
\nA soul is a wheel <\/em>
\nWith a crown for a hub <\/em>
\nTo keep it whole.<\/em><\/p>\n

Both brief appreciations (for her silver jubilee) are inscribed on a monument erected in 1977 in London's Queen's Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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