Quantocks Visit  Part IX, 'Surrounded By Beauty' by Sheila, August 28th 2018
Channel: semw52
Date: 2018-09-03

I am  still on the ancient track heading for a junction point at Bicknoller Post where I will eventually take the cantoc along Ladys Edge-----I am surrounded by beauty as i reflect  for a while on world events...Aware that  the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge once walked here, once reflected on the state of the world and wrote beautiful poetry---the landscape probably hasn't changed that much in 200 years apart from natural wear and tear and erosion---The poets stayed for a few years before being  seen as revolutionaries--the French Revolution was having an effect  inEurope and people like poets  started to think and challenge the culture--intellectualizing really---so these great minds moved North to Cumbria--another place I also like a great deal after working on a friend's sheep farm on a gap year  a few moons ago now---I can see why they would have loved Cumbria as well and may be it was easier to get lost in the Cumbrian landscape....