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A Blade of Fern

Edith L. Tiempo is a renowned Filipino poet, fiction writer, teacher, and literary critic. Her novel "A Blade of Fern" depicts rural life and the struggles of miners prospecting for gold in the southern Philippine village of Nibucal. The protagonist rejects society and seeks renewal in the natural environment, following the tradition of the Romantic hero. The novel provides a panoramic view of life and survival among the miners.

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A Blade of Fern

Edith L. Tiempo is a renowned Filipino poet, fiction writer, teacher, and literary critic. Her novel "A Blade of Fern" depicts rural life and the struggles of miners prospecting for gold in the southern Philippine village of Nibucal. The protagonist rejects society and seeks renewal in the natural environment, following the tradition of the Romantic hero. The novel provides a panoramic view of life and survival among the miners.

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“A BLADE OF FERN”

By: Edith L. Tiempo


I. AUTHOR
EDITH L. TIEMPO
 Poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic is one of the finest Filipino Writers in English whose
works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight.
 Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much
anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai."
 Set in the exotic background of the little mining village of Nibucal in the southern Philippines, A Blade of
Fern sketches a panoramic vista of rural life and problems of survival among miners prospecting for gold.

The novel is in the tradition of the Romantic hero who runs away from a society he rejects to seek
regeneration in a deeply natural environment.
 Edith L. Tiempo, poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic is one of the finest Filipino Writers in
English whose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and
insight. Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her
much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai."

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