The Crystal Bucket

Television Criticism from the Observer 1976–79

To Peter Porter

And by the happie blisfull way
More peaceful Pilgrims I shall see,
That haue shook off their gownes of clay,
And goe appareld fresh like mee.
Ile bring them first
To slake their thirst
And then to taste those nectar suckets
At the cleare wells
Where sweetness dwells,
Drawne up by Saints in Christall buckets

Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage