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Introduction | |
Approaching landscape and literature: Classical influences | |
Biblical influences:Eden and expulsion | |
The garden of love | |
The greenwood | |
Elegant shepherds | |
Symbolic nature | |
The 18th century: the Enlightenment | |
Towards the Romantics | |
Confinement and space | |
Assignments | |
Approaching the texts: Chaucer's landscapes | |
Shakespeare's landscapes | |
Marvell's ingenuity | |
Landscapes for elegy | |
Landscapes for religion | |
The country house | |
Romantic solitude | |
Landscapes of childhood | |
The Romantics:the Sublime and the Gothic | |
Hardy's Wessex | |
Observation and beyond | |
Working the land | |
Desolated land | |
Ancient and modern | |
Assignments. | |
Texts and extracts: Simon Armitage, from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
Geoffrey Chaucer, from The Parlement of Foulys | |
Thomas Carew, 'The Spring' John Clare, from The Shepherd's Calendar | |
Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Spring' | |
John Milton, from Paradise Lost | |
James Thomson, from The Seasons | |
Dorothy Wordsworth, from her Journals | |
Jane Austen, from Sense and Sensibility | |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, from 'Monte Blanc' | |
Matthew Arnold, from 'The Scholar Gipsy' | |
George Eliot, from The Mill on the Floss | |
John Steinbeck, from The Grapes of Wrath | |
Thomas Hardy, from Tess of the D'Urbervilles | |
D.H. Lawrence, from The Rainbow | |
Edmund Blunden, from Undertones of War | |
Stella Gibbons, from Cold Comfort Farm | |
T.S. Eliot, from The Four Quartets | |
Richard Wilbur, 'Year's End' | |
William Golding, from Free Fall | |
Angela Carter, from 'The Erl-King' | |
Ted Hughes, from Tales from Ovid | |
Critical approaches: Political approaches | |
Feminist approaches | |
Ecological approaches | |
Assignments | |
How to write about landscape and literature: Responding to a poem | |
Responding to prose | |
Comparison | |
Preparing to write about a topic | |
Writing about the topic | |
Assignments | |
Resources: Further reading | |
Media resources: film and television | |
Websites | |
Glossary | |
Index | |
Acknowledgements | |
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