The Small Years was first published in June 1930 and printed three times in its first six months. In 1937 it was re-issued in a smaller pocket edition, and this went out of print during the war. This second edition, which was originally published in 1950, returned the text to its larger form. This is simply one man's account of what it meant to him to be a child - to be born and brought up at an unusual school in a remote and beautiful rurality; an account which, by all the evidence, clearly has power over its readers of inciting them to recover and live over again their own private memories...
The Small Years was first published in June 1930 and printed three times in its first six months. In 1937 it was re-issued in a smaller pocket edition...
Frank Kendon (1893 1959) was a British poet, academic and critic who worked for Cambridge University Press from 1935 to 1954. Originally published in 1945, The Time Piece is a poem by Kendon that 'deals in short direct descriptions of earthly, rural, English things, and is much concerned with the small-scale goings-on of men and women and children and insects and other such earth-walkers, with a background awareness of the solar system upon which, unknowing, they depend'. This is a beautifully written text that will be of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry and the works of...
Frank Kendon (1893 1959) was a British poet, academic and critic who worked for Cambridge University Press from 1935 to 1954. Originally published in ...
