The Firstborn
Pages: 16
|Published: 1 Jan 1963
Description
Laurie Lee takes us back to the Age of Innocence. His poems are vivid and sensuous. In Cider with Rosie he recalls the unspoilt country of his childhood; and in this deeply moving essay Laurie Lee writes of the birth of his first child. "This moment of meeting seemed to be a birthtime for both of us; her first and my second life. Nothing I knew would be the same again. . . She is of course just an ordinary miracle, but is also the late wonder of my life. So each night I take her to bed like a book and lie close and study her".
