Laurie Lee
Who is Laurie Lee
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.
His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and A Moment of War (1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigades.
Early life and works
Having been born in Stroud, Gloucestershire on 26 June 1914, Laurie Lee moved with his family to the village of Slad in 1917, the move with which Cider wit...
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Laurie Lee Poems
- April Rise
If ever I saw blessing in the air
I see it now in this still early day
Where lemon-green the vaporous morning drips
Wet sunlight on the powder of my eye.
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- Milkmaid
The girl's far treble, muted to the heat,
calls like a fainting bird across the fields
to where her flock lies panting for her voice,
their black horns buried deep in marigolds.
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- Apples
Behold the applesâ?? rounded worlds:
juice-green of July rain,
the black polestar of flowers, the rind
mapped with its crimson stain.
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- Town Owl
On eves of cold, when slow coal fires,
rooted in basements, burn and branch,
brushing with smoke the city air;
When quartered moons pale in the sky,
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- The Long War For Peace Day
Less passionate the long war throws
its burning thorn about all men,
caught in one grief, we share one wound,
and cry one dialect of pain.
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Comments about Laurie Lee
- Iamvictorrl: thinking about this still from halloween (1978) of jamie lee curtis as laurie strode
- Aidan_gamble: what is it about barnet and top quality keepers?! in my time i've seen very good keepers, although i was certain about the top 3:
gary phillips
maik taylor
lee harrison
not certain anymore. laurie walker stands shoulder to shoulder with all of them.
- Staidbubble12: laurie's design i feel is just a hot mess.
first of all her entire look is from her comic books look which is why her hair doesn't make sense and breaks physics. second she still has some characteristics of jamie lee curtis like her green eyes.
her hair should also be longer.
- Overmayor: the sixth jody goes to...jamie lee curtis!
curtis debuted in the original halloween in 1978, in the now-iconic role of laurie strode, but she's remained relevant through parts in movies like knives out, a fish called wanda, true lies, trading places, and freaky friday.
- Spajw: as i walked out one midsummer morning by laurie lee is the book that first got me onto spain. but i have never read anything more evocative of the country than the final chapter of death in the afternoon by ernest hemingway. i forgive him an awful lot for what he wrote there.
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