Richard Jefferies

Field and Hedgerow (eBook, ePUB)

Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 'Field and Hedgerow,' Richard Jefferies masterfully weaves a tapestry of rural life in Victorian England through a lyrical exploration of nature. This collection of essays captivates readers with its vivid descriptions and profound insights into the English countryside. Jefferies employs a reflective and observational literary style, merging Romantic ideals with burgeoning environmental awareness. The text resonates with the pastoral tradition, artfully blending personal reflection and natural history, inviting readers to perceive the beauty and intricacies of the flora and fauna that populate his world. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was a prominent English writer and naturalist whose deep connection to the countryside profoundly shaped his literary work. Growing up in a rural setting, Jefferies's experiences as a farmer's son informed his passion for nature and preservation, compelling him to explore themes of rural existence against the backdrop of industrialization and urban change. His early work reflects a genuine admiration for the countryside, and 'Field and Hedgerow' serves as a culmination of his thoughts on the significance of nature. For readers yearning for a richly textured account of the rural landscape, 'Field and Hedgerow' offers a poignant meditation on nature's rhythms and its place within human life. This book is essential for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the complexities of the English countryside and the disconnect between humanity and nature'Äîan issue still relevant today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Good Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 4057664588470
• Artikelnr.: 58435903

Autorenporträt

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings covers a range of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), a work of science fiction. For much of his adult life he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings about the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time, but it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not.