We dream of an autumn like the above picture this year. With blazing woods of gold, of children scuffing through piles of crunchy leaves collecting conkers. But who was St Luke?
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John Keats greatly admired Wordsworth’s poetry and called it ‘poetry of the heart’. These 33 Duddon Sonnets reveal Wordsworth’s heart for this insignificant, forgotten river. It was one of his favourites since his youth.
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A few of my own rough sketches of Sussex-by-the-Sea with its glorious downs and sea coast, loved by Rudyard Kipling. His Sussex writing reveals a picture of a ‘much storied’ England of the past.
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John Clare was far from being just a simple country poet. This recently published collection of his work shows him as both naturalist and nature writer, as well as unparalleled poet. Following Clare through this book brings back memories of being young again out exploring the countryside of my native Berkshire.
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