Ronald Blythe
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Word From Wormingford
$24.00Add to cartCanterbury Press is proud to have acquired this backlist Ronald Blythe title, consisting of illustrated collections of the author’s regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times where, with a poet’s eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.
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View In Winter
$32.00Add to cartRonald Blythe followed up his famous Akenfield with this book. In it he allows people from all walks of life to reflect in their own words on what it is like to be old. The result is a fascinating and moving series of confidences which we are privileged to share. Whether philosophical, resigned or despairing of their long years, Ronald Blythe discovers in their talk much that helps us understand the natural but isolating effects of old age. The View in Winter provides us with a gentle, perceptive and profound memoir and a deeper understanding of the pattern of our lives.
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Circling Year : Perspectives From A Country Parish
$27.00Add to cartOpen the ancient door of an old church, says Ronald Blythe, and framed in the silence is a house of words where everything has been said: centuries of birth, marriage and death words, gossip, poetry, philosophy, rant, eloquence, learning, nonsense, the language of hymn writers and Bible translators – all of it spoken in one place. This work contains words spoken by Ronald Blythe in the churches he serves as a Reader in the Church of England, and as the local writer expected to add his own distinctive voice. Originating as addresses given at Matins or Evensong, they follow various paths into old and new liturgies, literature and the local countryside. They bring together the author’s delight in language, his recollections of farming, his recognition of friends and neighbours, and the hopes he has found in faith.
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Village Hours : Over 27000 Ronald Blythe Titles Sold
$23.99Add to cartBritain’s best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, writers, farmers and, increasingly, commuters. For all the changes in the contemporary countryside, timeless qualities remain and both are captured here with a poet’s understanding and imagination. The year takes its shape from the seasons of nature and the feasts and festivals of the Christian year. Each informs and illuminates the other in this loving celebration of nature’s gifts and neighbourly friendship. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create an exquisite series of stories of our times. These short essays first appeared in the Word From Wormingford column, a popular back page feature of the Church Times for almost twenty years.
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Bookmans Tale
$23.99Add to cart“Ronald Blythe has spent his life among the artists and writers of his native Suffolk. His books, especially the bestselling “”Akenfield””, have given East Anglia a distinctive literary voice. Here we accompany Ronald through the lanes of Constable country, we observe him in his study following his early morning writing routine, we meet John Clare, Traherne and countless other writers who continue to influence him, we join him in the ancient tradition of Anglican worship season by season, and luxuriate in the simple beauty of his ancient farmhouse and its garden, made by the artist John Nash. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create exquisite stories for our times.”
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Year At Bottengoms Farm
$17.99Add to cartDevotees of Ronald Blythe devoured the hardback edition of this sparkling collection of sixty ‘Word From Wormingford’ columns from the back page of the Church Times, published in the autumn of 2006 and one of Canterbury Press’ bestselling Christmas titles. These exquisite mini essays reflect on the natural landscape, the changing seasons, village life, art, poetry, the stories that ancient churches tell, the Christian year. They refresh one’s vision of one’s own daily routine and surroundings and can be read over and over again, like poetry. Ronald Blythe is a literary national treasure and has spent a rich life among artists and writers in his native Suffolk.
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View In Winter
$23.00Add to cartRonald Blythe followed up his famous Akenfield with this book. In it he allows people from all walks of life to reflect in their own words on what it is like to be old. The result is a fascinating and moving series of confidences which we are privileged to share. Whether philosophical, resigned or despairing of their long years, Ronald Blythe discovers in their talk much that helps us understand the natural but isolating effects of old age. The View in Winter provides us with a gentle, perceptive and profound memoir and a deeper understanding of the pattern of our lives.
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Talking To The Neighbours
$17.99Add to cartRonald Blythe invites us to join his neighbours and friends to hear his reflections on natural and local history, farming, literature, the seasons of the churcha(TM)s year, village comings and goings, world events and domestic routine that shape their lives. Though intimately local to three villages along the Stour Valley, in whose churches he gave the talks on which this book is based, Ronald Blythe’s voice is that of a poet, transcending boundaries of place and time with a universal appeal.
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Priest To The Temple Or The Country Parson
$20.99Add to cartGeorge Herbert, who died before he was forty, found his vocation as a poet in the last six years of his life and as a priest in the last three. It was a time of low standards for the Church and its ministry and from his parish at Bemerton near Salisbury he set about reflecting on what his role should be. The result was A Priest to the Temple, a text of deep devotion and beauty and a classic statement on the nature of priestly ministry that is unparalleled in its practical and timeless wisdom. Some thirty devotional poems, ranging across the poets life are also included here.