The Life of the Fields - Hardcover

Jefferies, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860194060 ISBN 13: 9781860194061

Publisher: Brockhampton Press, 2000

Synopsis

Vj. Scott My thanks are due to those editors who have so kindly permitted me to reprint the following pages :T he Field Play appeared in Time; Bits of Oak Bark and The Pageant of Summer, in Longmaris Magazine; Meadow Thoughts and Mind under Water, in The Graphic; Clematis Lane, Nature near Brighton, Sea, Sky, and rj Down, January in the Sussex Woods, and By the Exe, in The Standard; Notes on Landscape Painting, n Jin The Magazine of A rt; Village Miners, in The Gentles maris Magazine; Nature and the Gamekeeper, The :;;k Sacrifice to Trout, The Hovering of the Kestrel, ando Birds Climbing the A ir, in The StJ ames Gazette; Sport and Science, in The National Review; The Water-C olley, in The Manchester Guardian; Country Literature, Sunlight in a London Square, Venice in the East End, The Pigeons at the British Museum, and The Plainest City in Europe, in 7he Pall Mall Gazette, RICHARD JEFFERIES.
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Book Description

Richard Jefferies (1848–1887) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. First published in 1884, this volume contains a collection of previously published articles and essays, in which Jefferies describes rural life and folk traditions in England in his highly descriptive style.

Synopsis

Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) has been described as the "prose poet of England's fields and hedgerows." This little book contains a selection of his loveliest writings on the theme of nature, which are made even more appealing by Benjamin Perkins' delicate paintings. The texts included in this volume have been selected from two collections of his essays published in the 1880s: The Life of the Fields and The Open Air. They are little gems and it is hoped that they will encourage many people to discover or to read again the work of this sensitive and gifted writer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brockhampton Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860194060
• ISBN 13: 9781860194061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Perkins Benjamin
• Number of pages: 96