A literary pilgrim in England

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v '} ! ' : ' mMi:> OXFORD PAPERBACKS LITERATURE/TRAVEL Edward Thomas here roams England in search of the homes of somé of our most famous writers. Blake's chimneysweeper's cry is heard echoing through the streets of London; Shelley is seen eating 'Hard eggs and radishes and rolls at Eton'; Tennyson's starling 'claps his tiny castanets' across the rectory garden in Lincolnshire; Emily Bronté runs across 'my dear moorland' in Yorkshire; Gilbert White sows his kidney beans in the lower field garden at Selborne; and Burns walks forth 'to view the corn an' snuff the caller air' outside England in the Western Lowlands of Scotland. Thomas alsó visits the abodes of Keats, Aubrey, Cobbett, Hardy, Belloc, Coleridge, Clare, Borrow, Swinburne, Wordsworth, R. L. Stevenson, and many others. He quotes extensively from their works, illustrating how the landscapes and cities of their youth and maturity developed their idiosyncrasies and influenced their art. As one... Tovább

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v '} ! ' : ' mMi:> OXFORD PAPERBACKS LITERATURE/TRAVEL Edward Thomas here roams England in search of the homes of somé of our most famous writers. Blake's chimneysweeper's cry is heard echoing through the streets of London; Shelley is seen eating 'Hard eggs and radishes and rolls at Eton'; Tennyson's starling 'claps his tiny castanets' across the rectory garden in Lincolnshire; Emily Bronté runs across 'my dear moorland' in Yorkshire; Gilbert White sows his kidney beans in the lower field garden at Selborne; and Burns walks forth 'to view the corn an' snuff the caller air' outside England in the Western Lowlands of Scotland. Thomas alsó visits the abodes of Keats, Aubrey, Cobbett, Hardy, Belloc, Coleridge, Clare, Borrow, Swinburne, Wordsworth, R. L. Stevenson, and many others. He quotes extensively from their works, illustrating how the landscapes and cities of their youth and maturity developed their idiosyncrasies and influenced their art. As one would expect, no revealing detail of humour or character escapes Edward Thomas's observation, so the book is at once a series of exact biographies and a feast of evocative prose. Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London in 1878. A Literary Pilgrim in England was first published in 1917, the year of his death. Alsó available in Oxford Paperbacks are The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas edited by R. George Thomas and Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years by Eleanor Farjeon. Vissza