I agree with you about the fairy poems, Bill - we can well do without them, but the Georgians surely came into their own with the nature stuff. My favourite, Andrew Young, wrote very little but nature poems - 'Hard Frost' is a gem which I think I might have posted here before so I won't offer it again. After the Georgians people like Ted Hughes wrote about thistles, dead foxes and the horrible side of nature and now it seems to me very hard to write a fresh and interesting nature poem. I'd be very happy if I could write about glades and orchards.
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