by Belloc · Cluster: Familiar Essay · Paradox · The Common Man
Abstract
A gathering of Belloc’s familiar essays, most first printed in the Morning Post, ranging over song, travel through western England, rivers, old towns, rest and death. The reflective, digressive voice celebrates ordinary rooted life, the common man and the English countryside against the encroachments of a hurried modern age.
Capitoli / Chapters
- On Song
- On an Empty House
- The Landfall
- The Little Old Man
- The Long March
- On Saturnalia
- A Little Conversation in Herefordshire
- On the Rights of Property
- The Economist
- A Little Conversation in Carthage
- The Strange Companion
- The Visitor
- A Reconstruction of the Past
- The Reasonable Press
- Asmodeus
- The Death of the Comic Author
- The Statesman
- A Descendant of William Shakespeare
- On the Approach to Western England
- The Weald
- On London and the Houses in it
- On Old Towns
- A Crossing of the Hills
- The Barber
- On High Places
- On Some Little Horses
- On Streams and Rivers
- On Two Manuals
- On Fantastic Books
- The Unfortunate Man
- The Contented Man
- The Dream
- The Silence of the Battlefields
- Novissima Hora
- On Rest
Readability (prose)-92.4 Flesch ease60.3 FK grade63.9 Fog22% complex137.5 words/sent
Connections
Forms & Genres: Essay, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Common Man, Nostalgia, Tradition, Critique of Progress, Transience, Faith Motifs: Road, River, Music and Song, Home, Hill Settings: Rural England, London Topoi: Beatus Ille (Happy the Man Rural Retreat), Open Road Homecoming