The Shell Country Alphabet

Author : Geoffrey Grigson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780141959689

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The Shell Country Alphabet by Geoffrey Grigson Pdf

In the 1960s Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see. The result is a book that will take you on an imaginative journey, revealing hidden stories, unexpected places and strange phenomena. From green men, ice-scratches, cross-legged knights and weathercocks to rainbows, clouds and stars; from place-names and poets to mazes, dene-holes and sham ruins, via avenues, dewponds and village greens, The Shell Country Alphabet will help you discover the world that remains, just off the motorway. 'Geoffrey Grigson resurrected the minor, the provincial and the parochial ... [he was] an erudite and unrivalled topographer ... ardent in promoting informed awareness of the distinctiveness of place' Toby Barnard 'An anthologist of genius' P.J. Kavanagh

Author : Geoffrey Grigson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1245817069

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The Shell Country Alphabet by Geoffrey Grigson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004487406

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"My Rebellious and Imperfect Eye" by Anonim Pdf

“My Rebellious and Imperfect Eye”: Observing Geoffrey Grigson acknowledges and celebrates Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) as an all-round man, as a distinctive lyrical poet, as the exact observer of nature and of men, in the past and in the present, as a pioneering literary critic and art critic, as an unrivalled anthologist, as a ground-breaking editor, as a broadcaster, as a botanist - the list could be extended. In an unsurpassed number of diverse areas of artistic and natural culture, Grigson passionately communicated all he experienced and felt to as wide an audience as possible. Therefore, as the centenary of his birth comes in view, it seems singularly appropriate to celebrate Geoffrey Grigson's unique contribution to the twentieth-century cultural scene. In a writing career spanning nearly sixty years, he was unmatched by any of his contemporaries for a range which reaches from the edges of journalism into and beyond the academic world. In prose and verse, the nineteen contributors to this volume, amongst them some of the most distinguished names in contemporary English letters, would hardly claim to have covered every aspect of Grigson's genius, but they do manage to touch upon most of the territory he illuminated. The volume contains a full bibliography of Grigson's work and a number of his drawings.

Author : George Watson,I. R. Willison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950 by George Watson,I. R. Willison Pdf

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1555 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349036509

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Writers Directory by NA NA Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Country life
ISBN : IND:30000088469121

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Country Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Herbert Watkins Grubb,Nicholas Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Alphabet books
ISBN : OCLC:42709765

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A Country Alphabet by David Herbert Watkins Grubb,Nicholas Parry Pdf

Author : Liza Alexander
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Alphabet
ISBN : 0307631060

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A Day in the Country by Liza Alexander Pdf

An alphabet book featuring alliterative sentences about the Sesame Street characters.

Author : Roger C. Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527571600

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Varieties of History and Their Porous Frontiers by Roger C. Richardson Pdf

Properly understood, social history, local history and historiography are closely interconnected and benefit from the dialectical relationships which help bind them together. The actual topics and individual chapters gathered together in this book are chronologically wide-ranging, but are demonstrably linked by methodological common denominators and common threads in their northern and southern settings. All the essays are squarely based on new research and all reach outwards, as well as inwards. All are problem solving and all display a vigorous methodology at work. Some re-visit well-known historians and subjects such as W.G. Hoskins and Joan Thirsk and the Oxford English Dictionary. Others, like the essays on John Milner and G.H. Tupling make a convincing case for resurrecting the neglected or forgotten.

Author : Heather Tanner,Robin Tanner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0245546073

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A Country Alphabet by Heather Tanner,Robin Tanner Pdf

Author : James Grande
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317317081

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William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment by James Grande Pdf

Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Following a career in the British army he began writing as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its supporters. This is the first collection on Cobbett and contains essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines.

Author : Peter Fiennes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781786076304

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Footnotes by Peter Fiennes Pdf

‘The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.’ Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past. The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, and ends with Charles Dickens on the train that took him to his final resting place in Westminster Abbey. From the wilds of Skye and Snowdon, to a big night out in Birmingham with J. B. Priestley and Beryl Bainbridge, Footnotes is a series of evocative biographies, a lyrical foray into the past, and a quest to understand Britain through the books, journals and diaries of some of our greatest writers. And as Fiennes travels the country, and roams across the centuries, he wonders: ‘Who are we? What do we want? They seemed like good questions to ask, in the company of some of our greatest writers, given these restless times.’

Author : Susan Owens
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500775608

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Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers & The British Landscape by Susan Owens Pdf

Lyrical and compelling, Spirit of Place examines the British landscape as it’s portrayed in literature and art. English landscape painting is often said to be an eighteenth-century invention, yet when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and winds its way through history, all the way up to the present day. In Spirit of Place, Susan Owens illuminates how the British landscape has been framed, reimagined, and reshaped by generations of creative thinkers. To offer a panoramic view of the countryside throughout history, Owens dives into the work of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain Poet to Thomas Gainsborough, Jane Austen, J. M. W. Turner, and John Constable, and from Paul Nash and Barbara Hepworth to Robert Macfarlane. Richly illustrated, including manuscript pages, early maps, paintings, film stills, and photographs, Spirit of Place is a compelling narrative of how we have been shown the British landscape.

Author : Rory Cellan-Jones
Publisher : September Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781914613449

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Ruskin Park by Rory Cellan-Jones Pdf

After a childhood of silence and secrets, a compelling journey of discovery – from broadcaster, podcaster and rescue dog tweeter @Ruskin147. Rory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a love affair between two BBC employees. But until his mother, Sylvia, died and he found a file labelled 'For Rory' he had no idea of their beginnings or ending. Or why his peculiarly isolated childhood had so tested the bond between him and Sylvia, who was single-parenting two sons in a one-bedroom fl at while working full time through the Fifties and Sixties. 'For Rory,' his mother had written on the file before she died, 'in the hope that it will help him understand how it really was ...' This is a compelling account of what Rory uncovered in the papers, letters and diaries; a relationship between two colleagues (two romantics) and the restrictive forces of post-war respectability and prejudice that ended it. It is also an evocation of the centrifugal force at the centre of all their lives - the BBC itself. Both tender and troubling, the drama moves from wartime radio broadcasts, to the glamour of 1950s television studios, to the golden era of BBC drama. His father may have directed The Forsyte Saga and Rory may have watched him from afar, but he didnt actually meet him until much later, in adulthood, when the damage to his mother's life had already been done. Praise for Always On: 'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable.' - Stephen Fry

Author : John Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317287551

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Plants in Contemporary Poetry by John Ryan Pdf

Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise Glück, and Alice Oswald, it addresses the relationship between language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness, and intelligence of vegetal life. Scientific, philosophical, and literary frameworks enable the author to develop an interdisciplinary approach to examining the role of plants in poetry. Drawing from recent plant science and contributing to the exciting new field of critical plant studies, the author develops a methodology he calls "botanical criticism" that aims to redress the lack of emphasis on plant life in studies of poetry. As a subset of ecocriticism, botanical criticism investigates how poets engage with plants literally and figuratively, materially and symbolically, in their works. Key themes covered in this volume include plants as invasives and weeds in human settings; as sources of physical and spiritual nourishment; as signifiers of region, home, and identity; as objects of aesthetics and objectivism; and, crucially, as beings with their own perspectives, voices, and modes of dialogue. Ryan demonstrates that poetic imagination is as essential as scientific rationality to elucidating and appreciating the mysteries of plant-being. This book will appeal to a multidisciplinary readership in the fields of ecocriticism, ecopoetry, environmental humanities, and ecocultural studies, and will be of interest to researchers in the emerging area of critical plant studies.