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A Wiltshire Diary by Francis Kilvert
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: English Journeys
Francis Kilvert's diary shows a compassionate and thoughtful delight in the people and beautiful surroundings of the English countryside. With good cheer he records his loves (among them poetry and the attentions of pretty girls) and his dislikes (including a distaste for bathing in knickers that leaves ...Show more
English Journeys: A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
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Category: Poetry | Series: English Journeys
This magical and poignant evocation of coming of age in the countryside describes lovers in secluded lanes, cricket and church bells, cherry trees hung with snow and woods full of bluebells. Yet in "A Shropshire Lad" the fields and hills are also places of loss and sorrow, where men die young or are sen ...Show more
English Journeys: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems by Thomas Gray
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Category: Poetry | Series: English Journeys
The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's l ...Show more
English Journeys: Some Country Houses and Their Owners by James Lees-Milne
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Category: Classics | Series: English Journeys
The delightful, gossipy diaries of James Lees-Milne describe his encounters with the owners of country houses - from eccentric lords and oil millionaires to raffish socialists - as he travelled over England saving properties for the National Trust. Here are sharply observed accounts of dinner with Vita ...Show more
The Clouded Mirror by L.T.C. Rolt
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: English Journeys
In these evocative and elegiac writings L.T.C. Rolt meditates on landscape, history, poetry, steam railways, vintage cars and the endless summer days of his childhood. He also recalls his many happy boating voyages on Britain's canals: the peace and tranquility, the wildlife and people, the changing sce ...Show more
Voices of Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: English Journeys
Born and brought up in rural Suffolk, Ronald Blythe was fascinated by the rhythms of country life and the stories of the people he had known since childhood. In this perceptive and moving evocation of his home, the villagers speak candidly about their lives, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Fi ...Show more
Walks in the Wheat-fields by Richard Jefferies
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: English Journeys
The countryside is filled with beauty and wonder in these imaginative, idiosyncratic writings, but also cruelty and hardship. They describe the texture of an owl's feather, the colours of autumn and the sound of rooks' wings sweeping across the sky. Yet here too is the grinding toil of reaping the harve ...Show more
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