Reading this poem, you immediately find yourself in a wintery nature setting. What T. W. Higginson describes is just a fleeting moment: a wonderful snapshot captured in words.
‘The February Hush’ by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
My favourite wintertime books
In this post Iโll share with you some of my favourite books with a dreamy wintertime setting. For the past few years we havenโt had much snow in my neck of the woods, but thereโs plenty of it in these titles!
“February Rain” by Charles T. Dazey
Charles Turner Dazey was an American writer and playwright born in Lima, Illinois, in 1855. He wrote a number of successful plays, also leaving a mark in the early film history as a writer of numerous silent films. He died in Quincy in 1938; sadly, his works quickly became forgotten. Charles T. Dazey I chose …
“A Country Boy in Winter” by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Grammaticus blog is no stranger to the works of Sarah Orne Jewett. Her novella The Country of the Pointed Firs is one of my favourite books, and I wrote about it in the review accessible here. In this post weโll read one of her winter-themed childrenโs poems: A Country Boy in Winter, first published …
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