The Charles Grove Society

  Celebrating and sharing the life and work of the poet Charles Grove (1774-1853 INT) since 1980 INT.  

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A continuation of the previous conversation

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Therefore, the Recollectionists influenced the Sublime-Recolletionists, and the Sublime Recollectionists influenced the Bleak-Pastoralists.

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Yesterday we looked at the definition for Recollectionism, today we look at the definition of Sublime Recollectionism.

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A Definition of Recollectionism from The Sudecester Dictionary, Sudecester University Press.

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After the Sublime-Recollectionists came the Bleak-Pastoralists. 

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More lines from William Wye, a contemporary of Charles Grove!

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One of Grove’s earlier works, written while he was still a student at the University of Sudecester.

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An unedited excerpt from the Journal of Charles Grove, dated the third of the month of the First Pink, 1798 INT.

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It appears Grove didn’t like this draft.

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The first goal of the Society of Charles Grove is to share Grove's work as widely as possible. The second goal is to give further context to these works and shed some light on the world that Grove lived in.

As a citizen of the Kingdom of Oscinia, Grove would have marked his days by the Oscinic Calendar, which was based on the various stages of apple growth.

While Oscinic apples (and the wines produced with these apples) were one of the more popular exports from Oscinia in days long past, the origin story that William Wye gives to the calendar is not exactly accurate.

Instead, the origin of the Oscinic Calendar comes from Edmund Brykir, the first King of Oscinia. As he was unifying the Elder Kingdoms under one banner he discovered that apple trees grew naturally in each of the realms. Seeing it as a sign of unity for the new kingdom, Brykir used the stages of apple growth to mark the changing months, thereby placing all of his territory under one unified calendar.  

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A portrait of Charles Grove, drawn with pencil and charcoal by his childhood friend, Sophia Barrett.

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Between the years of 1803 and 1810, Charles Grove and Buchanan Elderberry both lived in Caldermere and spent the vast majority of their time in each other's company. Their main occupation, of course, was writing. It was because of this that they developed the charming habit of passing each other notes as a means of preventing themselves from disturbing the other's concentration.

Today's passage comes from one such note.

Interestingly enough, neither individual owned enough land to produce a harvest large enough to weigh down a wagon in such a fashion. Instead, it is far more likely that Grove was actually referring here to the volumes of poetry that they had recently written.

By the end of 1803, Grove would go on to publish the first volume of his monumental work "Idylls of the Mind," and Buchanan Elderberry would release his equally influential collection: "Visions of Ceryne."

Both of these collections are now considered to be the founding works of the Sublime-Recollectionist Movement.