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Early life and works. Laurie Lee's childhood home, Bank Cottages (now Rosebank Cottage), in the village of Slad. Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire on 26 June 1914, son of civil servant Reginald Joseph Lee (1877-1947) and Annie Emily (1879-1950), née Light, and moved with his family to the village of Slad in 1917; this ...
Laurie Lee. ‘He had a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision’ Guardian. Laurie Lee was born in 1914, and brought up in the village of Slad. He left home at nineteen to begin a journey on foot that would take him first to London and, a year later, to Spain.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Laurie Lee (born June 26, 1914, Slad, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, England—died May 13, 1997, Slad) was an English poet and prose writer best known for Cider with Rosie (1959), a memoir of the author’s boyhood in the Cotswold countryside.
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Laurie Lee (1914-1997) is famous for the life he wrote about so engagingly in three volumes of autobiography, but his first love was always poetry, a passion that left its mark on his precise and lyrical prose.
Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Yet Lee’s poems also captured war, human relationships and distant places, informed by his own experiences of lives uprooted by change and conflict.
26 de jun. de 2014 · Laurie Lee: Cider with Rosie author's life remembered. 26 June 2014. Getty Images. Writer and poet Laurie Lee immortalised rural life in his book Cider With Rosie, which brought him worldwide...
Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960). It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). It has sold over six million copies worldwide.
