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Whatever a writer''s subject, landscape usually figures in the process or the product. Childhood environments, the natural world, place and memory all are part of the rich compost of prose and poetry. In this anthology, writers from many genres consider how this interaction between landscape and literature works. Biographers find they need to explore the personal landscapes of their subjects; without knowing the places that have mattered to their biographees, they have an incomplete picture of the person. Many literally follow in their subject's following Wordsworth's path through the Duddon Valley, walking in the lush greenness of Laurie Lee's Slad, picnicking amongst the bluebells of John Mortimer's Thames Valley. Several writers claim that producing a book happens partly indoors and partly outdoors. Richard Mabey quotes the Latin phrase, "Solvitur ambulando" you can sort it out by walking. Walking seems a common way of clearing the head, and clarifying ideas in between times at the computer. Other writers 'sort it out' by contact with the elements in different gardening, cycling, swimming, sailing. A common thread running through all the essays is the inescapable influence of ch

Author

a-writers-anthology

Publisher

Totnes: Green Books in association with Ways with Words

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9781903998557

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities