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AFTERMATH Selected Writings 1960-2010
Ronald Blythe 'Aftermath bears witness to the breadth and depth of Blythe's involvement with landscape, life and literature far beyond the Stour Valley.'
Peter Parker
Ronald Blythe’s career began in 1960 with the publication of A Treasonable Growth, a novel set in Suffolk and reissued in 2010 as a Faber Find. It was followed a year later by a collection of short stories, Immediate Possession, but from The Age of Illusion (1963) much of Blythe’s considerable achievement has been non-fiction, most notably Akenfield, his Wormingford diary in the Church Times, his essays on John Clare and his Penguin editions of Hazlitt and Hardy. The publication of Aftermath celebrates Blythe’s unique achievement. Over the last 50 years his gentle, eloquent voice has spoken to us of the countryside, and the literature it has inspired, latterly from his farmhouse hidden away down an ancient, rutted track on the Suffolk/Essex border. Here are extracts from his major works, from Akenfield and Divine Landscapes, The View in Winter, his introductions to Hazlitt and Henry James and volumes of war poetry. Here too, for the first time, are essays and reviews – of novels, literary biographies, letters and diaries, anthologies of landscape writing both sacred and topographical. From George Herbert and Traherne, from Gilbert White and Francis Kilvert to Clare and Hardy, Blythe’s place in the English pastoral tradition is assured. Richard Mabey’s foreword is both a tribute to his friend and mentor and a wonderful introduction to this timely anthology.
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