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Jan Morris

Song of the Earth

Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place

By Philip Marsden

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Partway through this fascinating work we come across the Cornish painter Peter Lanyon (died 1964), and he seems to me unexpectedly emblematic of the whole. He came home from the Second World War to join the eagerly abstractionist movement of English artists that became known as the St Ives School. He was the one Cornishman among them, and some resented the stoutly Cornish, semi-figurative element to his work. ‘Why don’t you admit you’re an abstract painter,’ demanded one of them, ‘instead of all this stuff about Cornwall?’

Literary Review

Oct 2014

Jan Morris

Impossible Not to Be a Bit Pleased with Himself

Rather Like Margaret

Wiped off the Map

Let It Blow

Forget the Fluff

Painting in Verse

Stanzas at the Summit

The Sun Will Set

My Little Town

Made in Mannahatta

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Of Wind & Water

Though the Open Door

Mammismo & Machismo

Kidnapped

In Potemkin’s Steps

Seeking His Quarry

Jan Morris

Song of the Earth

Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place

By Philip Marsden

Granta Books 348pp £20 order from our bookshop

Oct 2014

Impossible Not to Be a Bit Pleased with Himself

Rather Like Margaret

Wiped off the Map

Let It Blow

Forget the Fluff

Painting in Verse

Stanzas at the Summit

The Sun Will Set

My Little Town

Made in Mannahatta

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Of Wind & Water

Though the Open Door

Mammismo & Machismo

Kidnapped

In Potemkin’s Steps

Seeking His Quarry

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