Richard Jefferies Critical Essay | Critical Review by The Saturday Review

Critical Review by The Saturday Review

SOURCE: A review of The Amateur Poacher, in The Saturday Review, London, Vol. 48, No. 1253, November 1, 1879, pp. 548-49.

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 than its predecessors. Naturally we become sensible of a certain monotony, or at least of some diminution in the freshness of the first vivid pictures. But, on the other hand, the charms of the country are infinite with a variety that never grows stale; and the author of Wild Life and The Gamekeeper at Home dwells upon them with the affection of a lifelong familiarity. In The Amateur Poacher we have the most delicate painting of the minutest details of our rural landscapes, with realistic sketches in eloquent language of the changing scenery of English seasons. It...
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