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

Auteur
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.