Snowdrops and Wordsworth’s poetic prose – The Yorkshire Post says

THE poetic prose of William Wordsworth, and his still evocative verse To A Snowdrop, has even more resonance as the first tantalising glimpses of spring emerge from the long and despairing shadow of a lockdown winter.

By YP Comment

Published 18th Feb 2021, 11:29 BST

Snowdrops at Beningbrough Hall yesterday. Photo: Bruce Rollinson

His vivid description of snowdrops as the “venturous harbinger of spring” will chime with all those venturing out, of course being respectful of social distancing, or those still having to shield from Covid-19 while they continue to yearn for a new dawn.

But Wordsworth’s tribute to this “unbidden guest” is a gentle reminder about the precious value of flowers and why families do, indeed, have a right to be exercised if councils, and other bodies, cut back on the maintenance of much cherished municipal parks and gardens. Rarely has the splash of colour from snowdrops, or other early spring flowers, been so important to the nation’s soul. And, never again, will this be taken for granted.

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