English pastoral literature once consisted of imitations of the idyllic, bucolic poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Later practitioners, from the Romantics to John Clare, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, ...

James Rebanks' new book Pastoral Song urgently conveys how the drive for cheap, mass-produced food has impoverished both small farmers and the... James Rebanks is a farmer who shepherds sheep into ...

I have done my fair share of farming, at least for someone in his early 20s who lives in a city. The first time I worked in agriculture was the summer after my junior year of high school, when I ...

Best-selling author James Rebanks has been called England’s most famous farmer. His latest book, “Pastoral Song,” is a love story dedicated to the land his family has farmed for generations. It's also ...