A Literary Pilgrim in England

by Edward Thomas

Oxford University Press, 1980
ISBN 0192812912
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, previous owners’ inscription on half title page, age toned pages (see photographs)

“Edward Thomas here roams England in search of the homes of some of our most famous writers.  Blakes chimney-sweepers cry is heard echoing through the streets of London; Shelley is seen eating ‘Hard eggs and radishes and rolls at Eton’; Tennyson’s starling ‘claps his tiny castanets’ across the rectory garden in Lincolnshire; Emily Bronte runs across ‘my dear moorland’ in Yorkshire; Gilbert White sows his kidney beans in the lower field garden at Selbourne; and Burns walks forth ‘to view the corn an’ snuff the caller air’ outside England in the Western Lowlands of Scotland.  Thomas also visits the abodes of Keats, Aubrey, Cobbett, Hardy, Belloc, Coleridge, Clare, Borrow, Swinburne, Wordsworth, R. L. Stevenson, and many others.”