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I enjoyed the first couple of chapters immensely, but then it started to go downhill. It becomes repetitive almost as though some chapters are more of a writing exercise than a finished product. At its best the book is a lyrical tribute to the English countryside - at least one that once existed or was once imagined. There are some passages that are sad and seem to foreshadow the author's death while in the trenches during World War I. Thomas was clearly a patriot, but if nothing else the book d...
In and of itself, there’s not a lot of substance to this little book, however set in the context of it being by yet another young poet whose talents and life were squandered by WW1, it has more resonance (and I do enjoy reading nature writing by fellow country bumpkins).
His prose both abstruse /and lyrical perfection /abides nonetheless.
I've liked many of Thomas's poems (when forced to learn "Adlestrope" when I was fourteen, I took against him, but learned the error of my ways later in life), and have often wondered what his famous nature writing was like. So, I dipped my toe into the luxuriant waters with this short collection of essays published by Penguin in their English Journeys series.Now, I found in this book what I feared most. I've always been wary of nature writing, and the recent increasing interest in it has brought...
An excerpt thoroughly inspiring of nostalgia for a time past. As he describes the British countryside before WWI, the spread of the automobile and mass mechanisation of agricultural and arboricultural practices, I experienced an intense longing for a Britain I'd never known and never could. It may be Romantic naivety, but the peace of this Britain - described altogether poetically - and the innocence of its parishes and pastures, one could be forgiven for mentally retreating into this (undoubted...
