“the country doctor, in hail, rain, snow, or storm, must turn out of a warm bed and ride, often to the dreary waste of Dartmoor, through rough roads and darkness, at the call of humanity,”
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A late sequence of poems drawn from the life of a single Dartmoor village, from one who had watched the moor for half a century.
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Sources: Internet Archive (borrow). First-published year from the Devon & Exeter Institution bibliography; characters verified against the text.
Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.
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Shoveldown Stone Rows. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“In the murk of that silent hour, a spirit of thirst seemed to animate the heather and the marshes that oozed out beneath.”
Also on Our DartmoorHut circle settlement NW of Shovel Down — A Bronze Age dwelling circle etched into Dartmoor's granite landscape.
“the country doctor, in hail, rain, snow, or storm, must turn out of a warm bed and ride, often to the dreary waste of Dartmoor, through rough roads and darkness, at the call of humanity,”
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