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truepennyI'm teaching Sir John Denham's poem, "Cooper's Hill," today, and since the poem is extremely interested in topography and the view from Cooper's Hill, I did a Google image search.
And discovered that what the really famous Cooper's Hill, which is in Gloucestershire, is known for is cheese rolling.
I am so not making this up. My imagination isn't that good.
(Check out some of the pictures on the Event page to see just how freaking steep that hill is.)
Denham's Cooper's Hill is in Surrey.
Project Gutenberg has put online The International Monthly Magazine 5.2 (1852), which includes a lengthy, illustrated discussion of St. Anne's Hill, site of Chertsey Abbey, which features prominently in Denham's poem.
The River Thames Society, on their Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide site, has an awesome aerial view-cum-map of Cooper's Hill. SurreyProperty.com has views from Cooper's Hill: of Windsor Castle, of the Thames, and a third, which is very bucolic but also uninformative. Also a couple of views of Cooper's Hill, which now has an Air Force memorial at its crown. And, of course, Runnymede at its foot.
Can anyone, btw, tell me if Denham would have been able to see St. Paul's from the top of Cooper's Hill, or is that just poetic license?
And discovered that what the really famous Cooper's Hill, which is in Gloucestershire, is known for is cheese rolling.
I am so not making this up. My imagination isn't that good.
(Check out some of the pictures on the Event page to see just how freaking steep that hill is.)
Denham's Cooper's Hill is in Surrey.
Project Gutenberg has put online The International Monthly Magazine 5.2 (1852), which includes a lengthy, illustrated discussion of St. Anne's Hill, site of Chertsey Abbey, which features prominently in Denham's poem.
The River Thames Society, on their Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide site, has an awesome aerial view-cum-map of Cooper's Hill. SurreyProperty.com has views from Cooper's Hill: of Windsor Castle, of the Thames, and a third, which is very bucolic but also uninformative. Also a couple of views of Cooper's Hill, which now has an Air Force memorial at its crown. And, of course, Runnymede at its foot.
Can anyone, btw, tell me if Denham would have been able to see St. Paul's from the top of Cooper's Hill, or is that just poetic license?
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