Francis Mundy’s poem walks the glades of Needwood Forest in Staffordshire, celebrating its hunting, its nymphs and its ancient oaks in brisk couplets. The edition adds tributes from his Lichfield circle, including Erasmus Darwin, Anna Seward and Brooke Boothby, among them an address to the Swilcar Oak, and Mundy’s later lament ‘The Fall of Needwood’, written when the forest was enclosed.
A charming piece of Georgian regional verse and a record of a lost English woodland. Download the free EPUB.