Company I Have Kept

Company I Have Kept

Company I Have Kept - Henry S. Salt
Author
Henry S. Salt
Publisher
George Allen & Unwin, London
Published
1930
Pages
222
Format
Hardback

Summary

Henry Salt's "Company" includes not humans only, but animals, wild flowers, and mountains. The reader is introduced, for instance, to the Shrewsbury of the 'fifties, to Eton and Cambridge of the two succeeding decades, to the early socialist awakening and the lighter side of the humanitarian campaign, which shows the writer in affable conflict with his Savages. Many well known names figure in the book: Ruskin, Meredith, W. H. Hudson, Gandhi, Edward Carpenter, Bernard Shaw, H. M. Hyndman, Prince Kropotkin.

Content

  • Preface
  • By the Severn
  • In Cap and Gown
  • The Freedom of the Mountains
  • With the Poets
  • At Millthorpe
  • Early Socialists
  • Two Singers of Revolt
  • A Tribute to De Quincey
  • Some Great Talkers
  • Thoreau and Jefferies
  • Fellow-Countrymen of Thoreau
  • W. H. Hudson, As I Saw Him
  • Among the Rationalists
  • Humours of a Tea-Table
  • Two Anti-Vegetarian Sages
  • Concerning Cranks
  • The Manly Folk
  • Fruitful Meetings
  • Company by Letter
  • My Cousins
  • Friendly Wildflowers
  • Old Ties with the Classics
  • Company That Kept Me
  • Looking Back
  • Index

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