Book review: ‘Next to Nature’ by Ronald Blythe

A lifetime in the English countryside.

Richard Carter
A lovely piece by #RonaldBlythe on the Northamptonshire poet #JohnClare and hiding away http://johnclareessays.blogspot.com/p/john-clare-in-hiding.html
John Clare in Hiding

John Clare in Hiding: ‘He Hides and Sings’ by Ronald Blythe In his poem ‘The Botanist’s Walk’, written at High Beach, Epping, Clare says o...

The writer and thinker #RonaldBlythe has died, a man rooted in Suffolk and the countryside. His obituary in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/15/ronald-blythe-obituary
Ronald Blythe obituary

Nature writer whose 1969 book Akenfield, a portrait of a rural life rapidly disappearing from view, was acclaimed as a classic

The Guardian
Sunset picture looking towards Wormingford over the Stour Valley from Wiston. For those who are interested Ronald Blythe's house is just out of shot. He was 100 recently.
#StourValley
#RonaldBlythe
#Akenfield
Lovely book. But surely we readers and century-old #RonaldBlythe deserved a WHOLE dustcover, Mr John McMurray?