Beside Still Waters - Christopher Benson, Arthur

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Résumé :
A quiet recovery of a vanished world, and a companion for recent days alike. Beside Still Waters gathers elegiac essays in a restrained, luminous Edwardian prose style that still speaks with clarity to modern readers. This complete edition assembles classic essays that turn nature and landscape into mirrors for memory, time, and character. In reflective mood and lucid cadence, the pieces illuminate English countryside, the seasons, and the moods of early twentieth-century England, offering contemplative moral reflections that reward both the casual reader and the serious student of literature. The book sits as a thoughtful mediator between the general reader and the tradition of British nature appreciation, inviting memory and nostalgia without sentimentality. Historically, Arthur Christopher Benson's work sits at a pivotal point in English literature-a bridge between late Victorian measurement and modern sensibility. Its quiet resilience and humane tone reveal an enduring value for students of English literature and for anyone who cherishes a calm, thoughtful voice amidst contemporary noise. Beside Still Waters is not merely a reprint...

Biographie:
Arthur Christopher Benson, FRSL was an English essayist, poet, and professor who was born on April 24, 1862, and died on June 17, 1925. He was the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Among other things, he wrote the words to Edward Elgar's Coronation Ode and the words to the patriotic song Land of Hope and Glory (1902). People really liked his poems, articles, and reviews of other writers' work. He was also known for writing ghost stories. Bernard Benson was born on April 24, 1862, at Wellington College in Berkshire. He was the sixth child of Edward White Benson (1829-1896), who was the first teacher of the college and later became Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 to 1896. His mother, Mary Sidgwick Benson, was related to the scientist Henry Sidgwick. Edward Frederic Benson, who is best known for his Mapp and Lucia books, and Robert Hugh Benson, who was a priest in the Church of England before becoming a Roman Catholic and wrote many famous books, were also brothers of Benson. Margaret Benson, their sister, was an artist, an author, and a self-taught Egyptologist....

Sommaire:
it is a restored, culturally significant corpus, revived for today's audience and for future generations. More than a collection, it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, a touchstone for a complete edition that honours the craft and the moment....