Knowledge: art, literature and music
See Also:
- recreation → outdoors → hunting → foxhunting → art, literature and music
- recreation → outdoors → hunting → foxhunting → publications
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Links
- D'ye ken John Peel?
http://home.mweb.co.za/sa/salbu/JohnPeel.html - Lyrics and history of this famous song and 'Horn of the Hunter'. Listen to the melody on Windows Media Player.
- John Peel: The Man and the Song
http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/john_peel_f.html - A short history by Steve Bulman from Cumbria, UK.
- Hunting Poetry
http://www.huntfacts.com/Poetry.htm - Selection of poems about the fox and foxhunting by WB Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Will H Ogilvie, Beatrice Holden, Phil Stevenson, Miss M. Wynter, D.W. Nash, Whyte-Melville and John Masefield.
- Baden-Powell, Lessons from the Varsity of Life
http://www.pinetreeweb.com/bp-varsity3-2.htm - Comments on importance of fox-hunting.
- Hughes, Branston`s Pickles - The Diary of an English Hunting Horse
http://www.horses.co.uk/branston/ - Foxhunting stories (1995-present) from the point of view of the horse. Includes pictures of the "author" and his friends, including Peter Hughes of Bath, Somerset.
- Kipling - The Fox Meditates
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_foxhunting.htm - Poem by Rudyard Kipling reflecting on the history of fox hunting in England.
- Exmoor Oral History Archive: Tom Yandle (18 October 2001)
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/exmoor/yandle.htm - Summary of his oral history recordings about his life of hunting including his chairmanship of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds and the Masters of Deer Hounds Association. He was also High Sheriff of Somerset and on both the National Trust and National Park Committees.
- Sassoon, The Old Huntsman
http://www.bartleby.com/135/1.html - Poem by Siegfried Sassoon from his book of poetry The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918).
- The Toll Gate: Fox-Hunting
http://www.heyerlist.org/tollgate/foxhunting.html - Background information and historical notes about foxhunting as used in Georgette Heyer's novel The Toll Gate, written in 1953 and set in 1817.
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