Gordon Beningfield Books

Poems of the Countryside Beningfield, Gordon

A book of traditional farm animals featuring a hundred new paintings, written and illustrated by a wildlife and landscape artist and campaigner for the preservation of the English countryside. The text reflects his dismay at the diminishing numbers of England's rich variety of farm animals.

First American Edition, Square Sm Quarto, 1980, PP.141

FIRST EDITION. 1985 Select Editions oblong hardcover, British import. Thomas Hardy. “The Darkling Thrush” is a poem by the English poet and novelist Thomas Hardy. The poem describes a desolate world, which the poem’s speaker takes as cause for despair and hopelessness. However, a bird (the “thrush”) bursts onto the scene, singing a beautiful and hopeful song—so hopeful that the speaker wonders whether the bird knows something that the speaker doesn’t. -