DOGGERLAND DREAMTIME Time Song, Julia Blackburn, Vintage, £25 Something in East Anglia encourages spectral visions, deep thoughts about time. The 14th-century seer Julian of Norwich dreamed of submarine realms, going …downe into the see-ground, and there I saw hill and dalis green, semand as it were moss-begrowne, with wrekke and gravel. In 1658, Sir Thomas Browne published… Continue reading
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The romance of the classical – on the Appian Way
THE ROMANCE OF THE CLASSICAL To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside. Passing for ever, he fares; and on either hand, Deep in the gardens golden pavilions hide R. L. Stevenson, Songs of Travel No youth, but a man in his 40s bareheaded under merciless sun. Nor were there any golden pavilions… Continue reading