Презентация на тему The Thames: The Past and The Present

felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his

own sweet will.
Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

southern England. While best known because its lower reaches

flow through central London, the river flows through several other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading and Windsor.

from the Celtic name for the river, "Tamesas". The

river gives its name to the Thames Valley, a region of England centred around the river between Oxford and West London, the Thames Gateway, the area centred around the tidal Thames, and the Thames Estuary to the east of London.

(346 km).

from the large estuarial marshlands of the Isle of

Sheppey, Isle of Grain and Canvey Island to small tree-covered islets like Rose Isle in Oxfordshire and Headpile Eyot in Berkshire.

a discrete drainage line as early as 58 million

years ago, in the late Palaeocene Period Thanetian Stage.

human history, being an economic resource, a water highway,

a boundary, a fresh water source, also a source of food and more recently a leisure facility.

with many clubs encouraging participation and organising racing and

inter-club competitions.

literature including novels, diaries and poetry. It is the

central theme in three in particular: "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome, first published in 1889, is a humorous account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.

years 1864–65) describes the river in a grimmer light.   "In

these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in."The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, and a girl of nineteen or twenty. The girl rowed, pulling a pair of sculls very easily; the man with the rudder-lines slack in his hands, and his hands loose in his waisteband, kept an eager look-out."  

in 1908, is set in the middle to upper

reaches of the river.

Thames has been a subject for artists, great and

minor, over the centuries. Four major artists with works based on the Thames are Canaletto,
J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, and James McNeil Whistler. The 20th century British artist Stanley Spencer produced many works at Cookham.

river - this 19th century view of the Thames

at Hampton Court is the work of one of the great unknowns among the French Impressionists, the 'Englishman' Alfred Sisley.

to the UK only twice during his lifetime to

paint, capturing the Thames on the first occasion, in 1874, as a working river and as a pleasure ground.

apart from a solitary canvas depicting Charing Cross Bridge,

preferring Hampton Court and the area to the west of the Thames by the nearby riverside village of East Molesey.

and the interplay of light on water - sometimes

with dramatic results.

Whistler (1834-1903)

Breanski, Jr.(1877 - 1957)