Vita Sackville-West "The Land" - "Winter" Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of English author and poet Vita Sackville-West reading from her long narrative poem dated 1926, "The Land" part one "Winter" Sackville-West's long poem of 1926, The Land, one of the most popular and successful English poems of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Sackville-West's poem has been described and compared to its literary predecessors in the Classical and eighteenth-century georgic traditions (notably Virgil's Georgics and Thomson's The Seasons), The many archaic, dialect and local words and expressions that appear in the poem and her use of such so-called "odd words" is central to the portrait given in The Land of Kent in particular, and England in general. Likewise, her accounts of agricultural methods and traditions give the poem a long-term historical and sociological interest: and provides an important and valuable record of certain "threatened" and "passing" English rural voices and ways of life in the years between the wars. The sound recording comes from a set of four 78 rpm records she made of the poem in 1931. The photographic image of Vita is probably younger than she would have been by the time the poem was written but it catches her in her beautiful prime works reasonably well as a virtual movie. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 -- 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again ...