Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
These exquisite mini essays reflect on the natural landscape, the changing seasons, village life, art, poetry, the stories that ancient churches tell, the Christian year. They refresh ones vision of ones own daily routine and surroundings and can be read over and over again, like poetry.
A Year at Bottengoms Farm
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
These exquisite mini essays reflect on the natural landscape, the changing seasons, village life, art, poetry, the stories that ancient churches tell, the Christian year. They refresh ones vision of ones own daily routine and surroundings and can be read over and over again, like poetry.
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
These exquisite mini essays reflect on the natural landscape, the changing seasons, village life, art, poetry, the stories that ancient churches tell, the Christian year. They refresh ones vision of ones own daily routine and surroundings and can be read over and over again, like poetry.
Word from Wormingford
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Canterbury Press is proud to have acquired these backlist Ronald Blythe titles, consisting of illustrated collections of the authors regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times where, with a poets eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in the South of England. Each volume was critically acclaimed on publication.
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Canterbury Press is proud to have acquired these backlist Ronald Blythe titles, consisting of illustrated collections of the authors regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times where, with a poets eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in the South of England. Each volume was critically acclaimed on publication.
Under a Broad Sky
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254741
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
With reverence and love, Britains most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in the Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as in its many literary, artistic and historic associations. The year takes its shape from the seasons of nature and the feasts and festivals of the Christian year. Each informs and illuminates the other in this loving celebration of natures gifts and neighbourly friendship. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create an exquisite series of stories of our times. These delightful essays first appeared in the Word From Wormingford column, a popular back page feature of the Church Times for some 20 years. It was praised as one of the finest journalistic columns by the Guardian in November 2012.
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254741
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
With reverence and love, Britains most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in the Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as in its many literary, artistic and historic associations. The year takes its shape from the seasons of nature and the feasts and festivals of the Christian year. Each informs and illuminates the other in this loving celebration of natures gifts and neighbourly friendship. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create an exquisite series of stories of our times. These delightful essays first appeared in the Word From Wormingford column, a popular back page feature of the Church Times for some 20 years. It was praised as one of the finest journalistic columns by the Guardian in November 2012.
At the Yeoman's House
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904634881
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A meditation on the painter John Nash's old home.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904634881
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A meditation on the painter John Nash's old home.
Talking to the Neighbours
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853115530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Timeless reflections on local life, farming, literature, the churchs year, the seasons, that transcend boundaries of place and time.
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853115530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Timeless reflections on local life, farming, literature, the churchs year, the seasons, that transcend boundaries of place and time.
Forever Wormingford
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 178622027X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Long recognised as Britain’s greatest living rural writer, Ronald Blythe draws together literature, poetry, spirituality and memory which all merge to create an exquisite commentary on our times that is at once celebratory and elegiac. In this eleventh and final collection of his beloved 'Word from Wormingford', Ronald Blythe opens us our eyes to the small miracles that happen everywhere in ordinary life. With a poet’s deftness he gives us language with which to speak about the experiences that touch every life, but so often leave us speechless – life’s great joys and its incomprehensible sorrows. His writing awakens us to the colours and scents of the seasons and the weather, lets us listen to the myriad remembered conversations stored in his attic mind, evokes the smell of old books and all the memories they conjure up, and shows us how to be thankful for the inestimable blessing of simple routine.
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 178622027X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Long recognised as Britain’s greatest living rural writer, Ronald Blythe draws together literature, poetry, spirituality and memory which all merge to create an exquisite commentary on our times that is at once celebratory and elegiac. In this eleventh and final collection of his beloved 'Word from Wormingford', Ronald Blythe opens us our eyes to the small miracles that happen everywhere in ordinary life. With a poet’s deftness he gives us language with which to speak about the experiences that touch every life, but so often leave us speechless – life’s great joys and its incomprehensible sorrows. His writing awakens us to the colours and scents of the seasons and the weather, lets us listen to the myriad remembered conversations stored in his attic mind, evokes the smell of old books and all the memories they conjure up, and shows us how to be thankful for the inestimable blessing of simple routine.
Spirits of Community
Author: K. D. M. Snell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474268862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Concern about the 'decline of community', and the theme of 'community spirit', are internationally widespread in the modern world. The English past has featured many representations of declining community, expressed by those who lamented its loss in quite different periods and in diverse genres. This book analyses how community spirit and the passing of community have been described in the past – whether for good or ill – with an eye to modern issues, such as the so-called 'loneliness epidemic' or the social consequences of alternative structures of community. It does this through examination of authors such as Thomas Hardy, James Wentworth Day, Adrian Bell and H.E. Bates, by appraising detective fiction writers, analysing parish magazines, considering the letter writing of the parish poor in the 18th and 19th centuries, and through the depictions of realist landscape painters such as George Morland. K. D. M. Snell addresses modern social concerns, showing how many current preoccupations had earlier precedents. In presenting past representations of declining communities, and the way these affected individuals of very different political persuasions, the book draws out lessons and examples from the past about what community has meant hitherto, setting into context modern predicaments and judgements about 'spirits of community' today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474268862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Concern about the 'decline of community', and the theme of 'community spirit', are internationally widespread in the modern world. The English past has featured many representations of declining community, expressed by those who lamented its loss in quite different periods and in diverse genres. This book analyses how community spirit and the passing of community have been described in the past – whether for good or ill – with an eye to modern issues, such as the so-called 'loneliness epidemic' or the social consequences of alternative structures of community. It does this through examination of authors such as Thomas Hardy, James Wentworth Day, Adrian Bell and H.E. Bates, by appraising detective fiction writers, analysing parish magazines, considering the letter writing of the parish poor in the 18th and 19th centuries, and through the depictions of realist landscape painters such as George Morland. K. D. M. Snell addresses modern social concerns, showing how many current preoccupations had earlier precedents. In presenting past representations of declining communities, and the way these affected individuals of very different political persuasions, the book draws out lessons and examples from the past about what community has meant hitherto, setting into context modern predicaments and judgements about 'spirits of community' today.
Borderland
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Canterbury Press is proud to have acquired these backlist Ronald Blythe titles, consisting of illustrated collections of the authors regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times where, with a poets eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in the South of England. Each volume was critically acclaimed on publication.
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Canterbury Press is proud to have acquired these backlist Ronald Blythe titles, consisting of illustrated collections of the authors regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times where, with a poets eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in the South of England. Each volume was critically acclaimed on publication.
The Bookman's Tale
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1853119806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Ronald Blythe has spent his life among the artists and writers of his native Suffolk. His books, especially the bestselling "Akenfield", have given East Anglia a distinctive literary voice. Here we accompany Ronald through the lanes of Constable country, we observe him in his study following his early morning writing routine, we meet John Clare, Traherne and countless other writers who continue to influence him, we join him in the ancient tradition of Anglican worship season by season, and luxuriate in the simple beauty of his ancient farmhouse and its garden, made by the artist John Nash. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create exquisite stories for our times.
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1853119806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Ronald Blythe has spent his life among the artists and writers of his native Suffolk. His books, especially the bestselling "Akenfield", have given East Anglia a distinctive literary voice. Here we accompany Ronald through the lanes of Constable country, we observe him in his study following his early morning writing routine, we meet John Clare, Traherne and countless other writers who continue to influence him, we join him in the ancient tradition of Anglican worship season by season, and luxuriate in the simple beauty of his ancient farmhouse and its garden, made by the artist John Nash. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create exquisite stories for our times.
Under a Broad Sky
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254989
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
With reverence and love, Britain's most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in a Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as its many literary, artistic and historic associations.
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254989
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
With reverence and love, Britain's most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in a Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as its many literary, artistic and historic associations.