Richard Jefferies; his life and work

Thomas, Edward

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“…101 Although Edward Thomas might have disdained the 'policeman god' of The Gamekeeper at Home, and himself regretted not fighting with one, other countryside writers were prepared to be more accommodating. 102 Quite literally following in Richard Jefferies's footsteps, in 1913 the Swindon-based poet and folk-song collector Alfred Williams went in pursuit of Benny Haylock's modern-day counterpart. Ruddy-cheeked and 'abounding with knowledge of wildlife', Williams found a textbook study in the model keeper.…”

Section: Late Victorian and Edwardian Game Shootingmentioning

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‘K is for Keeper’: the roles and representations of the English gamekeeper, c. 1880–1914

Ridgwell

2021

Rural History

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The gamekeeper was an important but controversial presence in the late Victorian and Edwardian countryside. Admired by some for his skills in woodcraft and deep understanding of nature, for others the keeper was much less benign: a destroyer of wildlife; a barrier against wider public access to the land; and the upholder of fiercely contested laws. At a time when debates about the land and its present and future use formed a major part of contemporary political discourse, and when an urbanising society was investing ever more meaning in its idea of the rural, consideration of the keeper takes us beyond the study of field sports towards broader histories of the English countryside and its attendant ruralist culture. Situating the keeper in a dual setting of material production and recreational service provision, the following examines both what he did and was expected to do, and the ways in which this was represented. Not only were keepers active agents in their own representation, eager to project themselves as skilled professionals, they might also elicit support from unusual quarters. As will be seen, keeper representation was as varied as his many roles.

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‘K is for Keeper’: the roles and representations of the English gamekeeper, c. 1880–1914

Ridgwell

2021

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“…15 In this analysis Thomas and James overlapped with Edward Carpenter's work on mystic teachers in Towards Democracy and Adam's Peak to Elephanta, the latter of which at least was also familiar to Thomas, as he had cited it in his earlier biography, Richard Jefferies. 16 As Jesse Berridge explained in his memoir of Thomas, Thomas's readings on mysticism were part of his research while writing the biographies of Jefferies in 1909 and of the philosophical playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck in 1911, but it did not begin with these. 17 It is open to speculation when Thomas began researching this theme; it is possible that his use of laudanum since his time at Oxford could have produced an interest in the relationship between intoxicants and experiences of ecstasy.…”

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Edward Thomas’s ‘Ecstasy’: An Unpublished Essay

Stenning¹

2016

Essays in Criticism

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Edward Thomas and Robert Frost: To Earthward

Pite¹

2019

Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930

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Anticipatory Materialisms is a judicious collection of essays, and an important intervention in a rapidly developing field. The volume does not seek to debunk new materialist approaches, but it does raise an occasionally skeptical eyebrow at the claims to "newness" that have driven so much of the excitement around the term. The collection identifies an important gap in the available histories of the term, which tend to leap from selected early modern thinkers to the posthuman turn. Situating itself in the long nineteenth century, and covering a wealth of topics from walking to feeling, from sound to soil, Anticipatory Materialisms restores a fundamentally literary and interpretive dimension to our understanding of materiality. Here the nineteenth century emerges as the period that thought the relationships of matter, force, and agency with great subtlety. "New materialism" has become something of a buzzword in the theoretical humanities, and this volume is an important tool for helping us to see through the hype to its necessarily historical and material substance.

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Richard Jefferies; his life and work

Abstract: Mr. Edward Thomas Writes a Sympathetic Biographyof Richard Jefferies, Student of English Country Life.

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‘K is for Keeper’: the roles and representations of the English gamekeeper, c. 1880–1914

‘K is for Keeper’: the roles and representations of the English gamekeeper, c. 1880–1914

Edward Thomas’s ‘Ecstasy’: An Unpublished Essay

Edward Thomas and Robert Frost: To Earthward

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