John Stewart Collis

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Collis, John Stewart (1900-84) was born the son of an Irish solicitor, and educated at Rugby and Oxford. A writer of biographies and other works, his first book on Bernard Shaw, was published in 1925, followed by biographies of Havelock Ellis, Strindberg, Tolstoy, the Carlyles and Christopher Columbus. He is remembered largely for While Following the Plough (1946) and Down to Earth (1947: as one volume, The Worm Forgives the Plough, 1973), works inspired by the years he spent working as a farm labourer in Dorset and Sussex during the Second World War. His autobiography Bound Upon A Course brought him belated recognition as a pioneer in the ecological movement, who wrote with imagination and authenticity of rural life. ^[1]

The Worm Forgives the Plough will be reissued by Vintage Classics [1]in August 2009

Bibliography

Shaw
Forward to Nature
Farewell to Argument
The Sounding's Cataract
An Irishman's England
An Artist of Life
Marriage and Genius
Leo Tolstoy
The Carlyles
Bound Upon A Course
Christopher Columbus
Living With a Stranger
While Following the Plough
Down to Earth
The Triumph of the Tree
The Moving Waters
Paths of Light
The Vision of Glory
The Worm Forgives the Plough