Beautiful Wales

Chapter 2: PREFACE

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About This Book

A series of travel essays and sketches offering close, personal impressions of the Welsh countryside and its inhabitants, mixing vivid landscape description, domestic vignettes, and character portraits encountered on rural journeys. The writer moves from first impressions on entering the country through farmhouse scenes, conversations with local people, and a month-by-month sequence of seasonal observations. Interspersed are reflections on artistic responses to the scenery and notes on the accompanying color plates, producing a lyrical, observant account that balances topographical detail with subjective feeling.

PREFACE

A few of my jests, impressions of scenery, and portraits in this book have already been printed in The Daily Chronicle, The World, The Week's Survey, The Outlook, and The Illustrated London News. I have only to add that the line of verse on p. 34 is by Mr. Ernest Rhys; the lines on p. 71 are by Mr. T. Sturge Moore; and those on pp. 130 and 178 by Mr. Gordon Bottomley: and to confess, chiefly for the benefit of the solemn reviewer, that I know nothing of the Welsh language.

EDWARD THOMAS.