Recreations of Christopher North (Vol. 1&2)

Recreations of Christopher North is a two volume work which represents the finest prose works of John Wilson, Scottish man of letters. The work contains literary essays written over the years and published in periodicals. Through the deeds of his hero Christopher North, professor Wilson presents most effective transcription of the moods of thoughts and feeling of a deeply thinking and feeling mind. Volume I: Christopher in His Sporting Jacket Tale of Expiation Morning Monologue The Field of Flowers Cottages An Hour's Talk about Poetry Inch-Cruin A Day at Windermere The Moors Highland Snow-Storm The Holy Child Our Parish Volume II: May-Day Sacred Poetry Christopher in His Aviary Dr Kitchiner Soliloquy on the Seasons A Few Words on Thomson The Snowball Bicker of Pedmount Christmas Dreams Our Winter Quarters Stroll to Grassmere L'Envoy Remarks on the Scenery of the Highlands

John Wilson (1785-1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.