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“Deserves to become a classic. . . . It greatly enriches one’s sense of the British countryside to see it this way, through the eyes of poets and novelists down the centuries.”―Christian Science Monitor
The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman. Here, the renowned author Margaret Drabble presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions and periods, illuminating the ways in which their work has shaped our visual attitudes, taste in landscape, and relation to nature.For this new edition of her engaging study, Ms. Drabble has made corrections and updates to the text throughout and written a new epilogue.
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Margaret Drabble’s internationally celebrated novels include The Radiant Way, A Natural Curiosity, The Gates of Ivory, The Peppered Moth, The Seven Sisters, and The Red Queen. She is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. She lives in London, England.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Nearly all British poets and novelists have had their roots in a particular region, described with varying degrees of love and intimacy. Some of them consciously identify themselves with this sense of place - Wordsworth with the Lakes, Hardy with Wessex, Crabbe with East Anglia. In others the association is more subtle. In this 'enormously evocative and rewarding anthology of the English genius loci' (in the words of Richard Holmes), Margaret Drabble, herself a star in the literary firmament, explores the part that this feeling for locality and landscape has played, often quite unobtrusively, and shows how pervasively it has fashioned some of the greatest works in the language. The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman, covering all varieties of the British rural and urban landscape. This book presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions and periods. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780500514931
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