Author:Harold John Massingham

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Harold John Massingham
(1888–1952)

British writer on ruralism, matters to do with the countryside and agriculture; also a published poet

Works[edit]

  • Letters to X from H.J. Massingham (1921)
  • Dogs, Birds, and Others (1921), letters to The Spectator, editor
  • Some Birds of the Countryside: The Art Of Nature (1921)
  • "John Clare". The Athenaeum, 4732 (7 January 1921): 9–10.
  • Poems About Birds from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (1922), editor
  • Andrew Marvell 1621–1678 Tercentenary Tributes (1922) co-editor
  • Untrodden Ways – Adventures of English Coasts, Heaths and Marshes and Also Among the Works of Hudson, Crabbe and Other Country Writers (1923)
  • Sanctuaries for Birds and How to Make Them (1924)
  • In Praise of England (1924), miscellany
  • H. W. M.: A Selection From the Writings of H. W. Massingham (1925), editor
  • Downland Man (1926)
  • Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: The Giants in England (1926)
  • The Golden Age: The Story of Human Nature (1927)
  • The Heritage of Man (1929)
  • Guide to the Cotswolds, with Clough Williams-Ellis, and others
  • Pre-Roman Britain (1930)
  • The Friend of Shelley: A Memoir of Edward John Trelawny (1930)
  • A Treasury of seventeenth Century English Verse (1931) editor
  • Birds of the Seashore (1931)
  • Wold Without End (1932)
  • London Scene (1933)
  • The Great Victorians (1932), with Hugh Massingham[1]
  • English Country: Fifteen Essays by Various Authors (1934) editor, with H. E. Bates, Edmund Blunden, W. H. Davies, Vita Sackville-West, A. G. Street, John Collier
  • Country (1934), illustrated with photographs by Edgar Ward[2]
  • World Without End (1935)
  • Through the Wilderness (1935)
  • English Downland (1936)
  • The Genius of England (1937)
  • The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne (Nonesuch Press, 1938), editor, two volumes with engravings by Eric Ravilious
  • Britain and the Beast (1937), essay volume with A. G. Street, J. M. Keynes, John Moore, E. M. Forster, Clough Williams-Ellis
  • Shepherd's Country: a Record of the Crafts and People of the Hills (1938)
  • Country Relics (1939)
  • A Countryman's Journal (1939)
  • The English Countryside (1939), editor, with Adrian Bell, Harry Batsford, H. E. Bates. Batsford, Harry; Fry, Charles; Clark, Geoffrey; Warren, C. Henry; Bozman, E. F.; Bell, Adrian; Fairfax- Blakeborough, J)
  • The Sweet of the Year; March–April, May–June (1939)
  • Chiltern Country (1940)
  • Cotswold Country (1941)
  • Remembrance, an autobiography (1941) with Paul Nash
  • The Fall of the Year (1941)
  • England and the Farmer a symposium (1941), editor, Viscount Lymington, Sir Albert Howard, C. Henry Warren, Adrian Bell, Rolf Gardiner, L. J. Picton and Sir George Stapledon.
  • Field Fellowship (1942)
  • The English Countryman: a Study of the English Tradition (1942)
  • Men of Earth (1943)
  • Tree of Life (1943)
  • This Plot of Earth: A Gardener's Chronicle (1944)
  • The Wisdom of the Fields (1945)
  • Where Man Belongs: Rural Influence On Literature (1946)
  • The Natural Order – Essays in the Return to Husbandry (1946) (editor, with Philip Mairet, Lord Northbourne, the Earl of Portsmouth (Illustrated by Thomas Hennell)[3]
  • The Small Farmer A Survey By Various Hands (1947), editor
  • The Countryside and How to Enjoy it (1948)
  • An Englishman's Year (1948)
  • The Best Days (1949)
  • The Curious Traveller (1950)[4]
  • The Faith of a Fieldsman (1951)
  • Shakespeare Country, The, Including the Peak and the Cotswolds (1951)
  • The Southern Marches (1952)
Published posthumously
  • Prophesy of Famine: a Warning and the Remedy (1953), with Edward Hyams
  • The Essential Gilbert White of Selborne (1983), editor, selected by Mark Daniel
  • Fifteen Poems (Hayloft Press, 1987)
  • A Mirror of England: an anthology of the Writings of H. J. Massingham (1882–1952), edited by Edward Abelson (1988)


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1950, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 73 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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  1. Detail from a copy of book which is published by Ivor Nicholson and Watson London in i832, and reprinted in same year
  2. Detail from a book published by Cobden-Sanderson London in 1934
  3. Detail taken from a copy of the book first published in 1945 by J. M. Dent London
  4. Detail from a book published by Collins London in 1950