As the spring begins to beckon us outside, this month we’re on the trail of your metrical feet
The writer Robert MacFarlane has carved a trail in the minds of the book-reading public in recent years, with his books The Old Ways and Holloway. Among other things, MacFarlane talks a good deal about writers who have shared his fascination with old walkways. Certainly, pathways, both real and metaphorical, have played a significant part in the outputs of many poets, past and present.
One of MacFarlane’s great literary heroes is the poet Edward Thomas. A Londoner by birth but a countryman by inclination, Thomas was an inveterate walker and lanes and footpaths were his way into a happier world. Living and writing on the brink of the modern world, the world of cities and global war, Thomas immersed himself in the rural England he must have known was dying. His poem The Lane captures this knowledge and his reaction to it tersely.More
One of MacFarlane’s great literary heroes is the poet Edward Thomas. A Londoner by birth but a countryman by inclination, Thomas was an inveterate walker and lanes and footpaths were his way into a happier world. Living and writing on the brink of the modern world, the world of cities and global war, Thomas immersed himself in the rural England he must have known was dying. His poem The Lane captures this knowledge and his reaction to it tersely.More
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