LAKELAND SCENERY
THE ENGLISH LAKES, by Alfred Furness and Dr. W. V. Harke; Allen and Unwin English price, ,30/-. With. exultations, at my feet I saw Lake, islands, promontories, gleaming bays, A universe of Nature’s fairest forms, Proudly revealed with instantaneous burst, Magnificent, and beautiful, and gay. HEN William Wordsworth wrote those lines from The Prelude he was ‘living at Dove Cottage, Grassmere, a picture of which is included in this collection of 76 excellent photographs about the Lake, District, "our highest flight of English’ scenery." The pictures vary from a number of shots of Windermere, Grassmere, and the other lakes themselves, to the castles, crags, cultivated areas and cottages which have helped to make the region so inspiring to poet and patriot alike. It has been said that one cannot fail to take a good photograph of Lakeland scenery, but this collection captures atmosphere too-mist and lowering sky as often as sunlight and spring blossoms-and the result is doubly pleasing. Each photograph is accompanied by an appropriate quotation. The whole range of British poetry is drawn upon (though Wordsworth and Shelleyemost of all), and there are brief _ topographical and historical notes in many cases. The book, which is handsomely produced, in glossy paper throughout, is the first of a series to be
entitled "Immortal Britain.’
P.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 540, 28 October 1949, Page 15
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218LAKELAND SCENERY New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 540, 28 October 1949, Page 15
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