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Dorset Essays
Enlarged edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (spine sunned - otherwise VG in protective wrapper). Pp. vii + 144, illus with b&w photos (previous owner's ink and pencil inscriptions on front endpaper).
168 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1935
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August 11, 2021
My first by Llewelyn, originally published in 1935, I read the edition with b&w photography by Ann Clarke. An interesting mixture of biographical vignette, history, spiritual speculation, topography, memoir. I did find myself persevering in places, but this in some ways added to the feel of the book, it would be strange or slightly not right to find yourself enamoured throughout. Perhaps this pieces numbered quite a few, and the narrative tone remained the same.
There is so many moments in the book that make you pause for comparison with today's world with that of his, as he does here when contemplating the generations before his, but the thought of the country before the dominance of the motor car, and of nature in abundance, it seems a world away from where we are now, how we perceive nature. A return thought that L. P returns to is that mankind, us as individuals, are here for less than a mote of time, although I've not read him I began to think of R. S Thomas.
Perhaps through his spiritual meanderings I wanted more of actual history of the county, so if you were looking for more of a history this might only be of a passing read, but it's all about the man and his place, which makes me eager to turn to Earth Memories to read more about his secluded life. An interesting description here, when he refers to Lyme, Sherborne, Dorchester as cities, made me wonder about concepts of what constitutes a city, the place or the peciver.
There is so many moments in the book that make you pause for comparison with today's world with that of his, as he does here when contemplating the generations before his, but the thought of the country before the dominance of the motor car, and of nature in abundance, it seems a world away from where we are now, how we perceive nature. A return thought that L. P returns to is that mankind, us as individuals, are here for less than a mote of time, although I've not read him I began to think of R. S Thomas.
Perhaps through his spiritual meanderings I wanted more of actual history of the county, so if you were looking for more of a history this might only be of a passing read, but it's all about the man and his place, which makes me eager to turn to Earth Memories to read more about his secluded life. An interesting description here, when he refers to Lyme, Sherborne, Dorchester as cities, made me wonder about concepts of what constitutes a city, the place or the peciver.
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