Crocker's Hole

R.D. Blackmore's 'Crocker's Hole', a segment from the larger work 'Slain by the Doones', intricately portrays the entwined lives of students and fishermen against the backdrop of a picturesque English landscape. Blackmore's narrative flows as elegantly as the river Culm he describes, carrying the reader through the verdant valleys of Somersetshire into Devon, where the local anglers find themselve...