In 1925 he published a biography of George Bernard Shaw and he later went on to write other biographical works and also became a pioneer of the ecological movement in Britain. 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). His father was a Dublin solicitor and Collis was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. 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. The Wood contains his beautiful, thoughtful writing on the joys of nature and of a life of activity, how a love of the sun affects a man, and the progression of nature that sees each plant - hawthorn, honeysuckle, larch, elder - have its hour.
Clearing and thinning an Ash wood, he found a meditative peace and an earnest pleasure in the use of axe and bill-hook. In the company of trees we are able to think'Īn academic and writer, during the Second World War John Stewart Collis was put to agricultural work. Country lore and legends – Jennifer WestwoodĢ0.'In the company of flowers we know happiness. English Folk Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williamsġ8.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens – Vita Sackville-Westġ7. Some Country Houses and Their Owners – James Lees-Milneġ5. The Beauties of a Cottage Garden – Gertrude Jekyllġ3. Walks in the Wheat-fields – Richard Jefferiesġ0. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – Thomas Grayĩ. Through England on a Side Saddle – Miss Celia FiennesĦ. The Pleasures of English Food – Alan Davidsonĥ.
From Dover to the Wen – William CobbettĤ. An academic and writer, during the Second World War John Stewart Collis was put to agricultural work. This is a set I obtained years ago, boxed nicely, so I own all the volumes and am ready to go! Here is a masterlist of all the titles and I will link reviews as I read them!ģ. This page is to collect together links from another of my Penguin reading projects – the 20-book set of Penguin English Journeys.
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