Books written by William J. Keith

  • The Rural Tradition: A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside

    In this book he tests the cogency of thinking in terms of a 'rural tradition,' examines the critical problems inherent in such writing, and traces significant continuities between rural writers.

  • Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study

    The Country Books" -- "IV. The Story of My Heart" -- "V. The Romances: Wood Magic, Bevis, and After London" -- "VI. Jefferies' Fiction" -- "VII.

  • Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study

    This book, a critical study of the essays and novels of Richard Jefferies, an English writer of the latter part of the nineteenth century, is an attempt to define the nature of Jefferies' contribution to English literature, and to isolate ...

  • The Arts in Canada: The Last Fifty Years

    Yet despite the intrusion of syntax so that we can love one another and the world, the poem is poetry, the stream rushes, the mountains have amity, sensations communicate, The mules that angels ride come slowly down The blazing passes, ...

  • Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study

    This book, a critical study of the essays and novels of Richard Jefferies, an English writer of the latter part of the nineteenth century, is an attempt to define the nature of Jefferies' contribution to English literature, and to isolate ...