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A countryman is a resident of the countryside[1] with a particular affinity for the traditions and pursuits of the countryside. The word has traditional connotations of naivety or simplicity but is also associated with wholesomeness, taciturnity, and intuitive cunning.
Countrymen[edit]
Jack Hatt was described as an "archetypal countryman".[2]
The American, Robert Anderson, was described as a corporate hero but a countryman at heart, "who loved ranching, fly-fishing, horses and family."[3]
The countryman doesn't waste words. The Welsh poet Dic Jones "looked every inch the weather-beaten countryman, hunched over the small tractor, a flat cap rammed down on his gaunt features, ploughing the reluctant Cardiganshire earth into a keen westerly wind. Dic Jones was the archetypal Welsh farmer, spare of frame and sparse with words."[4]
In Edmund Crispin's Beware of the Trains (1949), the character Beeton is described as an "archetypal countryman, slow but intuitive, blank of eye yet with a vein of simple cunning such as all those who shoot or trap animals tend in time to acquire".[5]
From 2000 to 2003, the BBC aired a television series staring Clarissa Dickson Wright and Sir John Scott, titled Clarissa and the Countryman that was accompanied by two books.[6]
Slang terms and idioms[edit]
Similar terms, mostly derogatory, include:
- "chaw-bacons" - Victorian England
- "clod-hopper"
- "country cousin"
- bumpkin
- yokel
- hick
- country bumpkin
- backwoodsman
In media[edit]
In media, The Countryman is a magazine established in 1927 that has a policy of not endorsing blood sports.[7] The Countryman's Journal was published from 1934 and there was also The Countryman's Weekly.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/countryman
- ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jack-hatt-37897.html
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/dec/07/guardianobituaries.oil
- ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6093679/Dic-Jones-face-like-an-undertakers-shovel-but-the-mind-of-Byron.html
- ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2h1cQ_R0g2oC&lpg=PT142&ots=45SKb_IxPM&dq=countryman%20archetype%20-mini&pg=PT142#v=onepage&q=countryman%20archetype%20-mini&f=false
- ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10704680/Clarissa-Dickson-Wright-champion-of-the-countryside.html
- ^ http://www.countrymanmagazine.co.uk/about-us/
Further reading[edit]
- Bates, H. E. (1943) O More Than Happy Countryman. London: Country Life.[1]
- Greenberg, David Benjamin. (1947) Countryman's Companion. Harper.
- Hartley, Dorothy. (1942) The Countryman's England. London: Batsford.
- Moore, John. (1939) The Countryman's England. The English Scene, Vol. 6. Seeley Service.
- Moore, John. (1935) Country Men. London: J. M. Dent.
- Niall, Ian. (1965) The Way of a Countryman. London: Country Life. (pseud. John McNeillie)
- Roberts, Elliot Langley. (1956) Happy Countryman. London: Herbert Jenkins.
- Payn, William Hale. (1994) Oh Happy Countryman: A Suffolk Memoir. Lewes: The Book Guild. ISBN 0863329330
- Scott, Johnny. (2019) The Countryman: Through the Seasons. Quiller. ISBN 9781846892974
- Seymour, John. (1988) England Revisited: A countryman's nostalgic journey. London: Dorling Kindersley.
- Thomas, William Beach (1944) The Way of a Countryman. London: Michael Joseph.
- Tyrrell, Sydney James. (1973) A Countryman's Tale. London: Constable. ISBN 0094589003
- Vachell, Horace Annesley. (1933) This was England. A Countryman's Calendar, being a Pilgrimage through the by-ways of Yesterday, through the England that used to be, with its Flowers and Fields &c. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
- Warren, C. Henry. (1939) The Happy Countryman. London: Geoffrey Bles.
Music[edit]
- The Countryman’s Joy