Unlike the description of September in MacNeice’s Autumn Journal, I shall not have a fire and trees without leaves – only a windy sea and lots of books as I sit on a sunny porch and re-read the Autumn Journal and equally beautiful Autumn Sequel in the next nine days of holidays. Like the Autumn Journal, I shall hear the buzz around me and hope that I am wrong and that the sequel will not look anything like Louis MacNeice’s.
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