Fringilla

Some Tales In Verse

Downloads: Under 100
Pages: 132

Read PDF online Download Save

About this book

A modest finch serves as R. D. Blackmore's image for the storyteller in this collection of tales in verse. His introduction gives way to a poem addressed to his pen, where the wish to write well becomes a question of patience, honesty and kindness. The contents bring together stories of the Nile, biblical figures, a flower painter and a Michaelmas goose, giving the volume a varied range of subjects.

In the opening of Lita's tale, priests at Thebes await a rise in the river after years of poor harvests. A young woman is promised as an offering if the waters reach their appointed height. Elsewhere, Adam voices grief, wounded pride and longing for Eve against a landscape of mountains, glens and animals. Readers interested in narrative poetry can follow how rhyme and changing voices turn these scenes into reflections on faith, love and the need for companionship.

About the author

R. D. Blackmore

R. D. Blackmore was an English novelist and horticulturist whose fiction repeatedly returned to the landscapes, speech, and legends of western England.