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Stourbridge appears in two great works of poetry from the 20th century: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and The Cantos of Ezra Pound.
| “ | Of course our low hero was a self valeter by choice of need so
up he got up whatever is meant by a stourbridge clay kitchenette and lithargogalenu fowlhouse for the sake of akes (the umpple does not fall very far from the dumpertree) |
” |
- James Joyce Finnegans Wake, part 1, Episode 6. Page 184.
| “ | and I went in a post chaise
Woburn Farm, Stowe, Stratford, Stourbridge, Woodstock, High Wycombe and back to Grosvenor Sq |
” |
- Ezra Pound, Canto LXVI, line 30, Page 380.
Stourbridge found its way into Pound's Cantos via John Adams the second President of the United States, whose diary entry from 1786 Pound translated into his own epic poem.
Stourbridge Golf Course is also mentioned by P. G. Wodehouse.
| “ | "Or take Golf", said Mr. Carmody, side-stepping and attacking from another angle. "The only good golf-course in Worcestershire at present is at Stourbridge." | ” |
- P. G. Wodehouse, Money for Nothing, Chapter 5.
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