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Book SynopsisA book on writers and their relationship to the countryside by one of our greatest living critics.
Trade Review'Imbued with his usual eloquence and foresight ... his criticism attains an artistic quality of its own' Financial Times. * Financial Times *
'A new collection of essays by Karl Miller is a cause for jubilation' Independent. * Independent *
'Wide-ranging, brilliantly erudite and eccentric' Margaret Drabble, Observer. * Observer *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Foreword: Andrew O'Hagan. 'Didn't they ramble', a poem by Seamus Heaney. Country Writers. From the Lone Shieling. McGahern's Hard Sayings. The Passion of Alice Laidlaw. Edward and Florence. What Happened to Seamus Heaney. Yorkshire Lad. Hot for Boswell. Cockburn's Letters. McNeillie's Dream. Glass's Life of Gray. Carnival Scotland. Lord Dacre Hammers the Scots. Epilimnion Re-Used. Gulleying About. Baltimore's Honeys. Afterword. Notes. Index.
