Kevin Crossley-Holland et al. in Whiteleaf, near Princes Risborough - 1950
from The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood, pages 32–33:
On the cottage shelves were the works of medieval mystics, such as The Cloud of Unknowing, and later writers such as William Blake and Thomas Traherne and Richard Jefferies.
I remember listening to a radio performance of Gerald Finzi’s Dies Natalis with my father when I was eleven or twelve. He put on the table in front of me Traherne’s burning words:
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Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood (London, 2009), p. 32–33. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546623314556 accessed: 14 November, 2024
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Peter Crossley-Holland
1916-2001
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Dies Natalis
written by Gerald Finzi |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1950 |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:53:20 +0000
Approved on Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:11:03 +0100