At Home on the Earth; A new selection of the later writings of Richard Jeffries.

UK,8vo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,p/back original,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE+.Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase,so - no owner inscrptn,unread - apart from my own collation - no reading creases to spine/backstrip,nor any dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners either.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - though a tiny spot to some rear pages' edges,towards top of fore -edges; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine.UK,8vo wraps,p/back original,1st edn,8-173pp [paginated] includes an intro,a note on the selection,autobiographical fragments,20 prose extracts of Richard Jeffries writings,5 full-page (includes frntis) and 7 part-page b/w woodcut-style illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker throughout the text and the book,a Jeffries bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w woodcut illus frntis to it's recto,title page,a contents list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear after the index. Richard Jeffries (1848-87) has long been recognised as an interpreter of English country life and a natural observer with few if any equals.He was an idealist,who believed that human beings could free themselves from outworn ideas and achieve a greatly enlarged spiritual and physical capacity. A 'poet-naturalist' with an ecological vision,who understood the place of human beings in relation to the 'household' of life on earth,he was both mystic and realist,and his writings show the beauty of 'wild England' but also the harsh conditions of labouring life in the Victorian countryside.In his art of seeing,Jeffries was a precursor of modernist techniques,and an influence on modern nature writings and poetry.The variety of his gifts as a writer and thinker is reflected in the diversity of his admirers,who include Edward Thomas and W.H. Hudson,Q.D. Leavis and Henry Miller.Jeremy Hooker's new selection represents Jeffries at his best,and reveals his contemporary significance.Jeremy Hooker is well known as a poet and critic who has made a special contribution to the 'poetry of place'.He is the author of ten collections of poetry,and his critical writings include 'Writers in a Landscape' (University of Wales Press,1996).He is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glamorgan.A lifelong reader of Jeffries,he is President of the Richard Jeffries Society. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!