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While painters painted and writers wrote, an entirely different band of men, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land, and published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of agricultural England. They looked at the land in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty, and, using their reports, Anna Pavord explores the many different ways that land was managed and farmed, showing that what is universal is a place's capacity to frame and define our experience.
Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite and compelling book, written with zest, passion and deep understanding.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781408868942 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publication date: | 01/28/2016 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 272 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
For the last thirty years she has lived in Dorset, England.
Anna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for THE INDEPENDENT and the author of widely praised gardening books including PLANT PARTNERS and THE BORDER BOOK. She wrote for the OBSERVER for twenty years, has contributed to COUNTRY LIFE, ELLE DECORATION and COUNTRY LIVING, and is an associate editor of GARDENS ILLUSTRATED. For the last thirty years she has lived in Dorset, England where she is currently making a new garden. Constantly experimenting with new combinations of flowers and foliage, she finds it a tremendous source of inspiration.
Table of Contents
Beginning: The Sugar Loaf 1
A Picnic with Pythagoras
Celts against Romans
Which Landscapes?
Wasdale
The Fell Hounds
Part 1 Prospects and Painters
Chapter 1 Looking at the Lakes 13
The First Tourists
Looking by the Book
Thomas Gray and his Traitorous Claude Glass
In Search of Wordsworth
Suspended Between Two Firmaments
Chapter 2 Painting the Prospect 23
Gainsborough Shuts up his Landscapes
The Eidophusikon
Paul Sandby's Journey to the Fag End of Creation
The Last Bard
Burke and the Sublime
William Gilpin is Correctly Picturesque
The Rules of Beauty
Tintern
The Wrong Kind of Ruin
Chapter 3 A Fitting Landscape 37
Unconscious Imprints
The North Norfolk Coast
The Magnificence of Northumberland
To Agitius, Three Times Consul
The Groans of the Britons
A Sublime Shift
Chapter 4 'I Should Paint My Own Places Best' 47
Consequences of the War with France
John Constable and the Banks of the Stour
A Landscape Abounding in Human Associations
The Chiar'oscuro of Nature
Spring. East Bergholt Common, Hail Squalls. Noon
Constable Lectures to the Literary and Scientific Society of Hampstead
Richard Wilson
The Neglect of a Tasteless Public
Llyn Cau
Chapter 5 The Highlands 59
Wester Ross
Loch Carron
How Rain Remakes a Landscape
Waterfall Songs
White Noise
Black Peaks
Falls of the Clyde
Turner's Liber Studiorum
The Ghosts that Live in a Landscape
The Delight of Melancholy
The Sound of Raasay
Chapter 6 Making the Journey 69
To the Sea
Dark Waters at the Goultrop Roads
Slowing Down Speed
A Landscape of Ritual
Hugeous Stones
Cornelius Varley Watches Clouds
Chapter 7 Heavenly Hafod 79
Thomas Johnes's Dream
A Frenzy of Larch
The Correctly Educated Traveller
A Derby Dessert Service
Spending Three Fortunes
From Bog to Pasture
Intractable Tenants
Model Cheeses
An Earthly Eden
Part 2 Prospects and the Plough
Chapter 8 The Board Of Agriculture 93
A Different Way of Looking
Process Not Product
William Marshall's Rural Economies
ArthurYoung on the Hoof
The General Views
Cultivated Land and a Civilised Society
Ploughs Too Bad for Description
The Improvers
George Kay Has a Hard Time
A Patriotic Duty
The Landscape of Lancashire's Mills
Marshall's AU-Seeing Eye
Chapter 9 William Cobbett 109
The First Rural Ride
A Splenetic Guide
The Creep of the Wen
Nice Sweet Fuel
A Man Who Speaks and Thinks Plain
The Speenhamland System
Radical Swedes
The Superiority of Woodland Counties
The Supremacy of Ash
Happy Hampshire
Chapter 10 Of Rooks and Sheep 123
Birds in Flight
A Clamour of Rooks
Animating the Landscape
Roosts
Sheep Shape
Sheep
Leazes and Water Meadows
The Importance of Folding
Hurdles and Hazel
Robert Bakewell's Two Pounder
A Testing Time for Rams
Chapter 11 Common Land 141
Estover, Turbary and Pannage
The Commons Preservation Society
Searching for a Model Management Scheme
Biodiversity or Access; What Do We Want?
The Difficulty of Understanding the Plot
Chapter 12 Landscape and Farmers 151
Maps
Local Distinctiveness
A Landscape of Bureaucracy
Domesday
Surveying the Country
Pigs or Poppies
Shaping the Land
Hedges Old and New
The Bully Boys
A Sanitised Masquerade
Chapter 13 Dressing the Skeleton 167
Naming Places
Geological Imperatives
Hoskins's Golden Age
Enclosures
'Disbeautifying an Enchanting Piece of Scenery'
Our Richest Historical Record
Part 3 Prospects and Place
Chapter 14 A Particular Patch 177
Celtic Hill Forts
Singularities of Landscape
Jewels to Gather
An Inexorable Timetable
Protecting the Landscape?
Putting Golf First
Evensong
John Gale's Virginals
The Powerstock Tithe Map
Puzzicks and Flinty Nap
Absalom Guppy and the Workhouse
Chapter 15 Thomas Hardy's Wessex 193
Architecture as a Window on the Soul
Stinsford or Westminster Abbey: Where Do You Leave the Flowers?
Water Meadows, the Silver Gridirons
Egdon Heath
The Archetypal Wood
Nature's Indifference
A Blizzard from a Bright Blue Sky
Chapter 16 What Does Landscape Offer? 203
A Prospect
An Occupation
Predisposition
Contemplating a Quiet View
Marks Made and Rubbed Out
Time Measured by Different Clocks
Michaelmas Ancient Bones
A Morning in May
Lighting Up the Landscape
A Pedigree Bull
Hefted to the Hills
Ending A Funeral at Llanddewi Rhjdderch - The Glittering Valley 217
Notes 221
Bibliography 233
Acknowledgements 239
List of Illustrations 241
Index 243