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Written in 1951,two years before Thomas's death at the age of 39,Under Milk Woodis the writers's dramatic masterpiece. No library descriptions found. |
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I wouldn't even call these pieces "stories". They don't really have plots. They are more like meditations on situations. There is a lot of descriptions of places here and of people, animals, plants, hills, etc. Edward Thomas was a grand wanderer. I think that these places or situations or experiences were all based on actual concrete situations which he then created a little story snippet to make a kind of frame.
These are a bit like tiny hors d'oeuvre sandwiches. Even the whole book doesn't really amount to any kind of satisfying meal. But it definitely serves to whet one's appetite!
I am reminded a bit of the book Porius by John Cowper Powys. Powys can spend three pages describing the way water drips from a fern, and then allocate barely a paragraph to narrate a fierce battle with dozens of warriors.
Yeah I suppose this kind of writing could qualify as early magical realism. Simple events become windows into vast spaces, through dream and memory and just rich attention to sensory experience. ( )