Bourgeois Reveries
Julian Bell: Farmer Eliot, 3 February 2011
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
by Alexandra Harris.
Thames and Hudson, 320 pp., £19.95, October 2010,978 0 500 25171 3 Show More
by Alexandra Harris.
Thames and Hudson, 320 pp., £19.95, October 2010,
“... leaps, arriving for instance at Eliot’s thoughts on farming via the pottery of Bernard Leach and Thomas Hennell’s 1939 drawings of discarded scythes and harrows for H.J. Massingham’s Country Relics. These are threaded together by a historian’s fascination with how the past conceived its own past. How did 1930s sensibilities, from John Betjeman to Cecil ... ”