Author:Harold John Massingham

Harold John Massingham
(1888–1952)

Works

• 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)

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