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This publication continues Ronald Blythe's celebrated Word from Wormingford, though with a difference. For here, a village record moves further into the personal life of a writer who is not only a working part of the small community to which he has belonged for so many years, but who in many respects is isolated from it. Intimacy and distance are revealed as having their contrasting places in this both imaginative interpretation of the English countryside at the close of the 20th century.Tags
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Wonderful evocation of country life. A direct follow-on from Akenfield. Follows the calendar like his grear hero John Clare. Perhaps a bit too much religion for some tastes, but never heavy. Many insights into life and death, including solvitur ambulando, 'You can work it out by walking'. Ronnie Blythe is a great walker, like many of the Romantic poets. Encyclopaedic knowledge of traditional country ways, plants and animals. Never overly sentimental. He seems always busy. He found the secret to a contented life, like many of his friends and neighbours, also approaching 100.
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Ronald Blythe is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and President of the John Clare, Robert Kilvert and Robert Bloomfield Societies
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 630.92 — Applied science & technology Agriculture Farming / Crops & Produce Biography; History By Place Biography
- LCC
- DA670 .S758 .B59 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England Local history and description Counties, regions, etc., A-Z
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