🍁🍁🍂🍂HAPPY AUTUMN EQUINOX!!🍂🍂🍁🍁

There's so much to love about this beautiful season, from the colourful foliage, the crisp air, the holidays (including a certain holiday called Halloween 🎃🎃).. it's such a 'cosy' season and no doubt my favourite one 🙏🏻🍁🍁🙏🏻

With that in mind, I wanted to start the season with a poem that spoke with admiration about it so here it is.. 'Autumn' by English poet John Clare (1793-1864) 🍁📝📝🍁

The narrator of this poem speaks of all the simple beauties associated with Autumn that they admire, they may seem like such small things, but there's so much beauty to be found in them however simple and the poem for me really makes clear why this season is so beautiful 🙏🏻🍁🍁🙏🏻 Unfortunately I couldn't find much information about the poem and when it was published. Clare was a poet whose work mostly went noticed and didn't sell all too well in his lifetime, but his work was revived by various poets including Arthur Symons (1865-1945), Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) and later Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) in his work 'Poems of John Clare's Madness (1949).

After revived interest, Clare is now so considered one of the great poets of the 19th century and his biographer Sir Jonathan Bate called him "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self." 📝🍁🍁📝

For this poem I wanted to go for a reflective tone of someone who has seen plenty of autumn seasons so based the voice on the legend Sir John Hurt's (1940-2017) distinctive calm voice 🎙️🙏🏻🙏🏻🎙️ I hope I did both Clare's work and Sir Hurt justice 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Have a wonderful Autumn season and take care!! Thank you so much for listening!!🙏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻

The music in this video is by the ever brilliant Liborio Conti @liborioconti 🎼🎶🎶🎼

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