William Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with labourers, and outbursts at the encroaching cities and sufferings of the poor. Ian Dyck places these accounts in the context of Cobbett's political and social beliefs.
William Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with labourers, and outbursts at the ...
Indefatigable as a writer and reformer on rural and political questions in his native Britain, William Cobbett (1763 1835) wrote the present work during the period he spent as a farmer in the United States. Intended for young people and especially 'soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys' (Cobbett had himself been one of the latter), it provides concise and practical explanations of grammatical terms, touching on aspects of orthography, prosody, etymology and syntax. First published in December 1818 and used in English schools into the twentieth century, it is reissued here in the...
Indefatigable as a writer and reformer on rural and political questions in his native Britain, William Cobbett (1763 1835) wrote the present work duri...