An extract of John Masefield's poem Reynard the Fox read by Pat and Roy Palmer at the Burgage Hall on Friday 3rd April, 2009.

Described in John Masefield Society literature: "One of the great poems of the English countryside. The headlong dash of Masefield's narrative carries the listener on an exhilarating chase through the landscape the poet loved. In its deep sense of place and its humane sympathy for the hunted animal, the poem is a nostalgic celebration of an England that was lost in the trenches of the Great War."

With thanks to the Society of Authors , the literary representatives of the Estate of John Masefield, for permission to use copyright material.

John Masefield Society

For a brief historical understanding of Reynard the Fox in folklore and literature visit Wikipedia: Reynard .