If you want to sample more of Wilson's remarkable prose, there is a whole volume of it (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19938/19938-h/19938-h.htm) on Project Gutenberg. I have not read a lot of him, I must admit. He's a bit on the rich side, though I might manage to cultivate a taste for him if I tried. I came across the raven passage in Swainson's Folk lore and provincial names of British birds.
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If you want to sample more of Wilson's remarkable prose, there is a whole volume of it (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19938/19938-h/19938-h.htm) on Project Gutenberg. I have not read a lot of him, I must admit. He's a bit on the rich side, though I might manage to cultivate a taste for him if I tried. I came across the raven passage in Swainson's Folk lore and provincial names of British birds.