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A book on writers and their relationship to the countryside by one of our greatest living critics.

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'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 Contents
Acknowledgements. 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.

Tretower to Clyro Essays

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      Publisher Quercus Publishing
      Published 28 February 2013
      ISBN-13 9780857388391
      978-0857388391
      ISBN-10 0857388398
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      Essays The countryside, country life: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A 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 Contents
      Acknowledgements. 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.

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