Echoing greens: how cricket shaped the English imagination

The importance of cricket to England has been immortalised in the art and literature of a thousand years. For countless artists and writers across the centuries, the culture and aesthetics of cricket - white-clad players, the crack of bat on ball, booming appeals, admiring applause, figures running...

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1. Verfasser: Cooper, Brendan 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Constable [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:The importance of cricket to England has been immortalised in the art and literature of a thousand years. For countless artists and writers across the centuries, the culture and aesthetics of cricket - white-clad players, the crack of bat on ball, booming appeals, admiring applause, figures running up to bowl, batsmen leaning, waiting, swinging the blade - have been as essential to the English landscape as the hills and meadows immortalised by Gainsborough, Constable and Turner. 'Echoing Greens' is a fascinating and thoughtful exploration of the bond between cricket and the English imagination
Beschreibung:xvi, 336 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781408719442
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