Book description
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 lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode
to Autumn, the deceptively simple words of Emily Bront and the
personal and evocative verse of Thomas Hardy, bringing together the
greatest riches of English poetry.
Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English
countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too. It has provoked a
huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and
people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are
travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long
tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the
countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's
relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the
countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
Charles Cotton ~ Alexander Pope ~ James Thomson ~ Thomas Gray ~
Oliver Goldsmith ~ William Cowper ~ William Wordsworth ~ Samuel Taylor
Coleridge ~ John Clare ~ John Keats ~ Emily Bront ~ Thomas Hardy ~
Gerard Manley Hopkins ~ Edward Thomas
