Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work

Description:

Re-issue (first published 1909). Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet, essayist, and novelist, was deeply influenced by Richard Jefferies, and in 1907 he was commissioned by Hutchinson to write a critical biography of the prose-poet of the English countryside. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) is one of the major figures in the long tradition of British rural writers: 'No one English writer before had had such a wide knowledge of labourers, farmers, gamekeepers, poachers, of the fields, and woods, and waters, and the sky above them, by day and night … When he wrote these books […] he had no rival, nor have they since been equalled in purity, abundance, and rusticity.' (Thomas, 320)

Miller & Matthews E23.1; B. Morris, Richard Jefferies and the Ecological Vision (2006), pp 10-11

Condition

16mo, orig. cloth, teg, gt, fading to spine. Cont. ownership to front pastedown; some foxing to endpapers and frontis. Vg.