January Brings the Snow

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When I was at primary school in the mid-1990s, we used to sing a hymn of which I now remember only the first verse: Her poem, January Brings the Snow, has remained her most famous because of its timeless subject matter. Today, almost 200 years after it was written, January is still a lovely time of year for walking.

What makes the book really special is the many comments from Mama Lisa’s correspondents who have shared stories and memories from their own lives. The memories of childhood touch us forever! The book was published in 1822 and was critically acclaimed by her peers, with respected author and poet Charles Lamb marvelling at how Sara had managed to translate a complex language such as Latin so well. In today's terms, she would probably be described as a genius.Sara attended a small local school briefly but was largely educated at home, reading Greek and Latin classics. She became fluent in German, French, Italian and Spanish before the age of 25.

Lccn 85023789 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18317 Openlibrary_edition Sara married her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge in 1829 and the couple had four children. Sadly, only two, Herbert and Edith, survived into adulthood - also commonplace in the early 19th century. She continued writing, including many poems, mainly to entertain her children. The following is a poem written by Sara Coleridge in 1834 that the children of Clyde River School would have been required to memorize in the early 1930s.

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According to the Met Office, there's a good chance that at least some parts of the UK will see some snow in January. On average, snow falls somewhere in the UK for 5.3 days in January and 5.6 days in February. urn:lcp:januarybringssno0000cole_m9k6:epub:edf3c7d7-9707-43e2-a6ea-f7344c0fb552 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier januarybringssno0000cole_m9k6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3sv6hk3x Invoice 1652 Isbn 0803703139 Scotland has the highest recorded snowfall every year - in fact, Cairngorms in Scotland is officially the snowiest place in the UK, averaging 76.2 days of snow annually. Cornwall has an average of 7.4 days of snow falling every year, but it rarely settles due to our coastal setting. How Scandinavians mark the end of the season by “plundering” the Christmas Tree on St. Knut’s Day. That’s a fun way to get children to help with the post-holiday clean-up! Sara Coleridge's prodigious output gives the lie to the long-held belief that she had sacrificed her own creativity to that of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge," said Dr Swaab. "Although she spent around 10 years editing his work, a hugely influential scholarly enterprise still much respected today, she herself is a notable link between the Romantic and Victorian periods, and not just thanks to her name."

The first period is notable for its love poetry, written during her long engagement to her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge, while the middle period contains the verses for her children - the only work to have been previously published. Coleridge's third creative period comes after the death of her husband and was inspired by her close friendship with an Irish poet, Aubrey de Vere. Global warming means we will be unlikely to return to the long, freezing winters of the 20th century, when the snowiest winter in the UK occurred between 22nd January and 17th March 1947, when snow fell every day somewhere in the country! Coleridge died from cancer and it was after stumbling across a poem that she wrote about the tumour that would kill her, Doggrel Charm, that Dr Swaab was was inspired to hunt down more unpublished work by her. One of the most evocative poems about the changing seasons, January Brings the Snow, was written almost 200 years ago by English poet Sara Coleridge. The timeless classic takes readers on a walk through the changing weather and landscapes of each month of the year. January Brings the Snow was first published in a compilation of her poetry, Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children, in 1834.

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In the early 19th century, Sara had plenty of time for reflection. Quite a private person, she didn't publish her poetry under her own name. She was described as "keeping her light under a bushel". Apart from the earlier publication of her translations, she tended to write for pleasure. January Brings the Snow appears to depict her own life and how she felt about the changing seasons. It begins with the words, "January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow. February brings the rain, thaws the frozen lake again." Although there's no record of what was going through Sara's mind when she wrote January Brings the Snow, it would be fair to say she was inspired by the changing seasons, as she gazed out of the window of her marital home in Hampstead. The area was a far cry from the bustling London borough we know today. Mama Lisa’s Christmas Around The World is a celebration of the diversity and love with which many different cultures mark this joyful time of year. At the age of 20, she translated from Latin three large volumes of Account of the Abipones, a factual book written by Austrian missionary Martin Dobrizhoffer. It was his personal account of the lifestyle of the Abipones people, the indigenous population of Argentina's Gran Chaco region.