A writer’s Britain: landscape in literature

Beskrivning

Titel: A writer’s Britain: landscape in literature
Författare: Margaret Drabble
ISBN: 0500012199
Förlag: Thames and Hudson
Utgivningsår: 1979
Bandtyp: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Skick: Gott skick – något blekta kanter; pärmar något böjda; svagt gulnad inlaga. Skyddsomslag i gott skick – delvis blekt: kanter med veck.

Subjects: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885-1930 – Criticism and interpretation. English literature – History and criticism. Nature in literature. Landscapes in literature.

Review:

’A sensitive and, at times, moving survey of the relationship between place and writer’ –Contemporary Review

’Scholarly but also interesting … there should be enough to get you walking as well as reading’
–Metro

’A glorious tour, a personal appreciation of British writers and their love of landscape.’ –Southern Reporter

’Drabble … reads writers’ localities, ancient and modern, with an understanding of social history as deep as her knowledge of literature’ –The Times

’Drabble makes lively connections, parallels and distinctions … one of the great pleasures of the book [is] its quotations, generous in length, pertinently chosen.’
–The Spectator

’An enthralling read’
–Wharfedale and Airedale Observer