Come Into The Garden, Maud

Maud

Tennyson's Maud was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring. She rebuffed his advances. Brian Patten resurrected Maud as a poetical figure in 1965. Patten's Maud had become a down-at-heel city dweller, no longer wearing a posh Victorian frock but a Mary Quant dress, and eating fish and chips alone at night. Her garden was concrete and her days were 'murdered as if they were enemies'. I prefer Patten's p…  (read more)

20 Oct 2016

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Come Into The Garden, Maud

Maud, it is over. You can tell us now. (Brian Patten - 'Maud, 1965') AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens. Nikon D700. Deliberately softened in post production.

19 May 2018

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Garden Seat for Two

Shot with a Nikon Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 lens. Perhaps her name is Maud.

23 Jul 2024

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Maud (Part One)

Come into the perfumed garden Maud. Fuji X-E1 and Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 lens.

23 Jun 2019

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The Girl Who Fell Out

Now it came to pass that I walked from the elevated section of Maud Heath's causeway at Kellaways towards Langley Burrell. And as I approached Brunel's twin-arched bridge under his railway I espied a vacant sun dress upon the stonework leading to the bridge. Of the occupant there was no sign. She appeared to have wriggled free or simply fallen out. I checked inside to be sure. I learned only that her name was 'Primark'. I left the dress where it was in case she was hiding in the undergrowth. However, the possibility that the sundress had been thrown from the window of a passing train overhead could not be excluded. All this is perfectly true.

03 Jun 2016

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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.