Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies

Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies
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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 Englandâ€™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. There is the drawing of a twelfth-century man in February, warming bare toes by the fire. There is the tiny glass left behind from the Frost Fair of 1684, and the Sunspan house in Angmering that embodies the bright ambitions of the 1930s. Harris catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals. â€œBloody cold,â€ says Jonathan Swift in the â€œslobberyâ€ January of 1713. Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud and John Ruskin wants to bottle one. Weatherland is a celebration of English air and a life story of those who have lived in it. 60+ illustrations
Country USA
Brand THAMES & HUDSON LTD
Manufacturer Thames & Hudson
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2016-02-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780500518113

Country	USA
Brand	THAMES & HUDSON LTD
Manufacturer	Thames & Hudson
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
ReleaseDate	2016-02-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780500518113

Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies

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