Writing from Broad Chalke in Wiltshire after the First World War, the novelist turns essayist. Hewlett considers the changing lot of the farm labourer, village church and parson, servant girls, old ballads and broadsides, Drayton’s Polyolbion and the Icelandic Landnama, mixing literary talk with what he saw on his own rural doorstep.
Graceful, opinionated essays for lovers of the English countryside and its literature. Download the free EPUB.