A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature - Margaret Drabble

A very readable summary of how British landscape has been treated in English literature. It might put off some readers by slightly too academic language here and there. I loved the quotes and poetry that showed how writers have changed their perception of the open country around them: from religious suspicion of the sublime landscape to picturesque adoration to romanticizing all things rural and finally to more nuanced, worried voices in the industrial age. The quotes from Orwell, Tolkien, Virginia Wolf, Henry James, Dickens, Sylvia Plath are well curated and very immersive. They transport you to different places and times.

Pages: 281

Hardcover with dustjacket

Thames and Hudson, 1979

Good condition; DJ spine sun-faded

B40