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ID
c187
Title
"All the Milkiness of May-Time."
Genre
Essay
Page Count
5
Word Count
1200
Publisher
Countryman
Publication Year
1972
Document Types
Full-text Online
Nature Writing

A celebration of the English countryside in Spring, as Bates takes a "favourite journey" across Kent and Sussex to Brighton.

Evoking both W.H. Hudson and Edward Thomas, Bates finds no evidence that the landscape is "in danger of demise or decay," and instead experiences it with "fresh admiration" and an "abiding magic" each year.

In The Countryman (Summer 1972, lxxvii, 2, pp. 41-45, attached).


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