Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, June 30, 1932

It is difficult to separate actual boyhood impressions from  the visions called up by the stories I read as a boy. Thus, I am never quite sure whether some of the memories of woodland rambles in luxuriant late June & early July are actually mine or those of Bevis & Mark.

Charles Burchfield, June 30, 1932

 As a child Burchfield read works by English writer on rural life, Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), including Bevis (1882) and Wood Magic (1881). - J. Benjamin Townsend