Clun - in Culture

In Culture

  • In A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman wrote the verse:

Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the quietest places
Under the sun.

  • In Douglas Adams' book The Meaning of Liff, Clun is listed as "a leg that has gone to sleep that you have to drag around behind you".
  • E. M. Forster visited Clun, which subsequently featured as Oniton in his novel Howards End (1910).
  • Sir Walter Scott is believed to have stayed in The Buffalo Inn while writing The Betrothed and The Talisman, published jointly as Tales of The Crusaders in 1825. Clun Castle is supposed to have inspired Scott's Garde Doleureuse in that work.

Read more about this topic:  Clun

Famous quotes containing the word culture:

    Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
    Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

    Our culture still holds mothers almost exclusively responsible when things go wrong with the kids. Sensing this ultimate accountability, women are understandably reluctant to give up control or veto power. If the finger of blame was eventually going to point in your direction, wouldn’t you be?
    Ron Taffel (20th century)