The Life of the Fields

The Life of the Fields

by Richard Jefferies
The Life of the Fields

The Life of the Fields

by Richard Jefferies

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Overview

Richard Jefferies (1848–1887) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which he had been born, which, when brought together in book form, brought him recognition (though not wealth) and which continued to be read and admired after his early death. This volume, first published in 1884, contains a collection of essays and articles previously published during his career. Written in Jefferies' highly descriptive style, these essays describe rural life and nature in England, illustrating folk traditions and important natural events in rural communities. The mysticism and wonder of the natural world which exemplifies Jefferies' works is fully illustrated in these essays.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789356899131
Publisher: Alpha Editions
Publication date: 02/25/2023
Pages: 156
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

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 includes a diversity of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early 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 on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time.

Table of Contents

1. The field-play; 2. Bits of oak bark; 3. The pageant of summer; 4. Meadow thoughts; 5. Clematis lane; 6. Nature near Brighton; 7. Sea, sky and down; 8. January in the Sussex woods; 9. By the Exe; 10. The water-colley; 11. Notes on landscape painting; 12. Village miners; 13. Mind under water; 14. Sport and science; 15. Nature and the gamekeeper; 16. The sacrifice to trout; 17. The hovering of the kestrel; 18. Birds climbing the air; 19. Country literature; 20. Sunlight in a London square; 21. Venice in the east end; 22. The pigeons at the British Museum; 23. The plainest city in Europe.
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