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The Rural Tradition: A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside

The Rural Tradition: A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside

J. Keith, William

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Literary CriticismNature Writing

ISBN10: 1487586906
ISBN13: 9781487586904
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1974
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
'There is probably no single quality or characteristic - besides love of the countryside - that must inevitably distinguish a rural writer, ' notes W.J. Keith. However, 'what distinguishes rural writing that belongs to literature from that belonging to natural history, agricultural history, etc., is, as Richard E. Haymaker has observed, the writer's means of revealing Nature as well as describing her...In the final analysis the rural essayist paints neither landscapes nor self-portraits; instead he communicates the subtle relationship between himself and his environment, offering for our inspection his own attitudes and his own vision. We may be asked to look or to agree, but more than anything else we are invited to share. Ultimately, then, the best rural writing may be said to provide us, in a phrase adapted from Robert Langbaum, with a prose of experience.'

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