The name of Richard Jefferies is one invoked most often by association, whether with predecessors such as William Cobbett or Gilbert White, with contemporaries such as Thomas Hardy or W. H. Hudson, or...
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Richard Jefferies defies easy literary categorization. Labels such as essayist, journalist, novelist, rural observer, naturalist, and mystic have all been applied to this British writer who chronicled...
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In the following article, the Saturday Review critic provides a very positive assessment of The Amateur Poacher.
This third volume of a very agreeable series is perhaps in some respects more enjoyable...
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Leavis was a twentieth-century English critic, essayist, and editor. Her professional alliance with her husband, FR. Leavis, resulted in several literary collaborations, including the successful quart...
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In the excerpt below, Looker compares the early and later works of Jefferies.
What is most striking in the life of Richard Jefferies is the gradual development of his power of thought from the convent...
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In the following essay, Hyde examines Jefferies's portrayal of peasant life in his writings.
Never famous among the ranks of the English rural novelists, Richard Jefferies nevertheless possesse...
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Here, Williamson surveys Jefferies's life and discusses his development of two distinct styles.
It is not always immediately apparent to the very young writer that a man's thoughts, and ...
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In the following essay, Keith explores some interconnections between Jefferies's romances—Wood Magic, Bevis, and After London.
[Let us] consider the three… fictional works of Jeff...
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In this excerpt, Taylor studies four ofJefferies's essay collections, suggesting that his "numerous essays originated in his obsessive early cataloguings of the details of the natural wo...
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In the essay below, Mabey focuses on Jefferies's treatment of the common land-worker in books such as The Gamekeeper at Home and Hodge and His Masters.
The central character in what Jefferies o...
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In the following excerpt, Krasner explores Jefferies's view of nature, noting that he perceives "natural energy rather than natural form."
Albert Einstein [in The Evolution of Phy...
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Besant was a prolific English novelist, historian, and critic who used fiction to exposé and denounce the social evils of late-Victorian England. In the excerpt below, Besant discusses the failur...
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In the following excerpt, Salt discusses the shift in Jefferies's style from naturalist to poet-naturalist, as "we find the poetical and imaginative element wielding almost complete supr...
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In the following excerpt, Rickett discusses Jefferies as a vagabond temperment, stating that he 'presents to my mind all the characteristics of the Vagabond," including "his many ...
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A poet, novelist, and critic, Thomas is the most prominent twentieth-century representative of the tradition of nature poetry in English literature. His verse displays a profound love of natural beaut...
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Henley was an important figure in the counter-decadent movement of the 1890s. As editor of the National Observer and the New Review, Henley was an invigorating force in English literature, publishing ...
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Garnett was a prominent editor for several London publishing houses, and discovered or greatly influenced the work of many important English writers. He also published several volumes of criticism, al...
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Here, Vaughan explores Jefferies's writings, contending that they provide insight not only into natural history, but also into "the human element of the countryside. '
Jefferies h...
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(John) Richard Jefferies
