A Writer's Britain. Landscape in Literature

London England: Book Club Associates. Very Good/Good. 1979. 1st Book Club Associates. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto Hardback Hardback. A Writer's Britainsmall cloed tear to ege of to D/J. A love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman; it has not only inspired native-born writers, but also such distinguished expatriates as Henry James, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. Yet this is perhaps the first book not only to present an image of the country as seen by writers of different regions and periods, but also to illuminate the way in which their work has changed our cisual attitudes, our taste in landscape, and our relation to nature. With a perceptive and brilliant text by the distinguished novelist and critic Margaret Drabble, and a wide range of specially commissioned photographs in colour and black and white, this book covers all varieties of the rural and urban landscape. Illustrated. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .