Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: The Gravity of Things 1
6. Chapter 1. Cloud Studies: The Visible Invisible 10
7. Chapter 2. Pastoral, after History: The Apple Orchard 36
8. Chapter 3. Touching Things: “Nutting” and the Standing of Trees 61
9. Chapter 4. Composing Sound: The Deaf Dalesman, “The Brothers,” and Epitaphic Signs 79
10. Chapter 5. “Distressful Gift”: Talking to the Dead 94
11. Chapter 6. The Breath of Life: Wordsworth and the Gravity of Thought 114
12. Chapter 7. “On the Very Brink of Vacancy”: Things Unbeseen 128
13. Chapter 8. Senseless Rocks 150
14. Notes 177
15. Index 213