Hampshire Days (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. H. Hudson
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Nature study
- Genres: Nonfiction, Nature writing
- Subjects: Changelings or cuckoos, Folkloric or magical people, Nature, Rural or country life, 1910’s, Flowers, England or English people, Trees, Animals, Naturalists
Critical Evaluation:
Despite the poverty and ill health from which W. H. Hudson suffered much of his life, the dominant mood of HAMPSHIRE DAYS is the quiet joy found in the creatures, plants, and seasons of nature. This mood may have been furthered by the Civil List pension granted the author in 1901, the year before he finished the work. He tells us that he returned to New Forest in December, 1902, to complete this book, which chronicles his activities and discoveries in Hampshire from 1900 to 1902. His purpose was to write of this “delectable spot in the best bird...
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