Studies in the Field and Forest (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Wilson Flagg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332338895 ISBN 13 : 9781332338894

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover how natural scenes and human taste clash and blend in the woods, morning light, and garden borders. This excerpt shows how landscapes can echo nature without losing their wild heart.

The pages invite you into quiet woods at night and the bright opening of day, where sounds, shapes, and pale light shape your feelings. You’ll notice how frogs, birds, and distant bells create a mood of awe, mystery, and gentle wonder. The writing turns simple sights into a sense of place, where the forest seems alive with memory and meaning. It also contrasts untouched nature with the careful art of landscape improvement, illustrating how people respond to beauty with design and restraint.

The text moves from nocturnal observations to a vivid spring morning, then on to a transformation of a villa’s grounds. It shows how rustic features and wild edges gave way to tidy paths, gravel, statues, and formal borders. You’ll read about removing overgrown walls, planting exotic shrubs, and installing marble vases and a fountain, all to create what the author calls “high keeping” and order. The piece invites reflection on whether such polish preserves or erases the original magic of the woods.

• Experiencing the cadence of night sounds, messages from the forest, and the hush before dawn.


• Seeing morning light unfold across hills, lakes, and orchards with vivid sensory detail.


• Considering the tension between natural beauty and human landscaping choices.


• Exploring how rustic and wild imagery is reshaped by art, taste, and garden design.

Ideal for readers of nature writing and landscape history, and for anyone curious about how gardens and wild woods coexist in literature.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332338895
• ISBN 13: 9781332338894
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346
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