Weatherland Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris

A lively look at the English literary and artistic responses to the weather from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Keats and Ian McEwan In a sweeping panorama, Weatherland allows us to witness England’s cultural climates across the centuries. Before the Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons living in a wintry world wrote about the coldness of exile or the shelters they had to defend against enemies outside. The Middle Ages brought the warmth of spring; the new lyrics were sung in praise of blossoms and cuckoos. Descriptions of a rainy night are rare before 1700, but by the end of the eighteenth century the Romantics had adopted the squall as a fit subject for their most probing thoughts. The weather is vast and yet we experience it intimately, and Alexandra Harris builds her remarkable story from small evocative details.

Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Year:	2016
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780500518113
Condition:	Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy. DJ 'dirty' otherwise book in very good condition.

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SKU: 1602268
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