Month: March 2013

Written by Colin Blundell

FOUR NOVELS OF RICHARD JEFFERIES (R9)


Greene Ferne Farm (1880) The Dewy Morn (1884) After London (1885) Amaryllis at the Fair (1887) Some General Questions Before we look at the novels themselves, I’d like to ask a few questions about reading novels in general, for instance:- Where does our understanding of a novel come from? How does it arise? How do […]

Written by Colin Blundell

at the mention of anarchism


Herbert Read’s Poetry and Anarchism was first published in 1938 when I was one year old. I consumed it in the 1960’s—it became a part of me then. Having a clearout the other day I came across a slim volume containing a long poem I derived from Herbert Read’s great book sometime in the early […]