As we are welcoming the winter, the UK is welcoming its summer. And what better way than remembering one of its oldest poems? This is a great article from the Guardian which focuses on the poems original words, their sounds and their meanings which restore much of the poem's real, and somewhat forgotten, earthy beauty. Worth a read as an antidote to all this (English-like) rain. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/may/30/poem-week-cuc...