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There is no consistency of titling. Greek sources make the father a farmer (Γεωργὸς), while Osius calls him a peasant (rusticus). Caxton's description is labourer, as is La Fontaine's, although the French laboureur has the meaning of an independent husbandman, the term used by Samuel Croxall. The nature of the ground cultivated differs ...
The Farmer's Boy (1800) Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs (1802) Robert Bloomfield (3 December 1766 – 19 August 1823) was an English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck , Mary Collier and John Clare .
The Snake and the Farmer is a fable attributed to Aesop, of which there are ancient variants and several more from both Europe and India dating from Mediaeval times. The story is classed as Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 285D, and its theme is that a broken friendship cannot be mended. [ 1 ]
The poem assumes the point of view of a father who recalls taking a walk with his five-year-old son, Edward, at Lyswin farm. During the walk the man contemplates his two favourite locations—the Liswyn farm and Kilve's shore—and his current emotions. [3] Later, the narrator asks Edward whether he prefers Liswyn or Kilve. [4]
The Corpus Christi Carol or Falcon Carol [1] is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first written down by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill between 1504 and 1536. [2] The original writer of the carol remains anonymous .
In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "rebuffed the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine epiphany. Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote". [2]
The poem's final line has been hailed as one of the greatest lines in modern poetry. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 6 ] Although there were degrees of polarization about the line's abrasiveness, it has been credited as influential in the development of deep image and modernist poetry.
Arthur George Street (7 April 1892 – 21 July 1966), who wrote under the name of A. G. Street, was an English farmer, writer and broadcaster. A number of his books were published by the literary publishing house of Faber and Faber. His best-known book was Farmer's Glory, describing his time in Canada and how he returned to Wiltshire.