![]() ![]() These kinds of collections are usually called a treasury, but this one. ![]() Featuring all 23 of the classic tales, this new collection features a range of award-winning and contemporary voices, including Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Lily James, James Acaster, David Harewood. Her gallantly perfect language demonstrates the unwavering control with which she presented herself “In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets – when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.” (In respectful observance of her constant mission to explain let’s note that “paduasoy” comes from peau de soie, literally “skin of silk,” and is a French medieval grosgrain fabric.) Hail her superb drawing of flora and fauna note, however, that she had lesser skill drawing humans. Beatrix Potter the Complete Tales The 23 Original Peter Rabbit Books Original. Revisit the world of Beatrix Potter in this timeless new audiobook edition. ![]() Fenton and he answered, “Don’t ask the poet, ask the poem.” Therefore - go thou and do likewise with Beatrix Potter, and you will find – to take some examples - a self-containment brought on by nursery loneliness see the inner space in her work: note the predominance of interiors. Some years ago, when I was presenting Radio Four’s Poetry Please, a listener left a message at the BBC with a question for James Fenton as to the meaning of one of his poems. ![]()
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