Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, September 22nd, 1993
Cobbett's vision of landscape scenery in 'Rural Rides' differs significantly from the pantheistic and idealistic Romanticism of his contemporaries. Cobbett's work establishes his mental link between riding and written description and his habit of systematic classification. Specific views of scenery are examined as microcosmic indications of British socio-economics. I "The world in our conceit of it is not much bigger than a nutshell," observes William Hazlitt in his essay "On Going a Journey": "It is not one prospect expanded into another, county joined to county, kingdom to kingdom, lands t...
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