Upstate burgeoning.(COUNTRY LIFE)
From: National Review
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Date: 8/29/2005
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Author: Brookhiser, Richard
I CANNOT be what I am not. However long I live in the country, I will always be a city guy who writes; maybe a suburban kid who read and wanted to write. Nothing startling about that. How many rural poets were actual farmers? Hesiod maybe; John Clare. Most bards of the simple life have been second-homers (Horace, Virgil) or soldiers in the occupation force of the upper class (Jefferson). But even a provisional acquaintance with country life can make the classics real in a way that a ...
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