The Granite Kingdom
The Granite Kingdom

Author: Tim Hannigan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-05-11

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 180110882X

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A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region. A distant and exotic Celtic land, domain of tin-miners, pirates, smugglers and evocatively named saints, somehow separate from the rest of our island... Few regions of Britain are as holidayed in, as well-loved or as mythologized as Cornwall. From the woodlands of the Tamar Valley to the remote peninsula of Penwith – via the wilderness of Bodmin Moor and coastal villages where tourism and fishing find an uneasy coexistence – Tim Hannigan undertakes a zigzagging journey on foot across Britain's westernmost region to discover how the real Cornwall, its landscapes, histories, communities and sense of identity, intersect with the many projections and tropes that writers, artists and others have placed upon it. Combining landscape and nature writing with deep cultural inquiry, The Granite Kingdom is a probing but highly accessible tour of one of Britain's most popular regions, juxtaposing history, myth, folklore and literary representation with the geographical and social reality of contemporary Cornwall.

Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920

Author: Charlotte Mathieson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 131731882X

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The essays in this collection focus on the ways rural life was represented during the long nineteenth century. Contributors bring expertise from the fields of history, geography and literature to present an interdisciplinary study of the interplay between rural space and gender during a time of increasing industrialization and social change.

Radio Camelot
Radio Camelot

Author: Roger Simpson

Publisher: DS Brewer

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781843841401

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The author provides a full account of Arthurian radio drama, which evolved from D.G. Bridson's patriotic pre-war 'King Arthur', via fascinations with the Holy Grail and the Lady of Shalott, to its flowering in the 1990s with Kevin Crossley-Holland's 'Arthur's Knight'.

Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley
Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley

Author: Rory Waterman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1317175239

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Focusing on the significance of place, connection and relationship in three poets who are seldom considered in conjunction, Rory Waterman argues that Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley epitomize many of the emotional and societal shifts and mores of their age. Waterman looks at the foundations underpinning their poetry; the attempts of all three to forge a sense of belonging with or separateness from their readers; the poets’ varying responses to their geographical and cultural origins; the belonging and estrangement that inheres in relationships, including marriage; the forced estrangements of war; the antagonism between social belonging and a need for isolation; and, finally, the charged issues of faith and mortality in an increasingly secularized country.

Green Voices
Green Voices

Author: Terry Gifford

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780719043468

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The author here argues that the traditions of Pope and Goldsmith are continued in the present day by the likes of R.S. Thomas, George Mackay Brown, and others work in an 'anti-pastoralist' tradition of Crabbe and Clare. A chapter examining the attitudes towards the environment of sixteen contemporary poets concludes a lively ecological introduction to modern poetry.

Poetry & Geography
Poetry & Geography

Author: Neal Alexander

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1846318645

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Drawing on the recent focus on spatial imagination in the humanities and social sciences, Poetry and Geography looks at the significance of space, place, and landscape in the works of British and Irish poets, offering interpretations of poems by Roy Fisher, R. S. Thomas, John Burnside, Thomas Kinsella, Jo Shapcott, and many others. Its fourteen essays collectively sketch a series of intersections between language and location, form and environment, and sound and space, exploring poetry's unique capacity to invigorate and expand our spatial vocabularies and the many relationships we have with the world around us.

Poetry Review
Poetry Review

Author: Stephen Phillips

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13:

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vol. 1, no. 2; Feb. 1912 includes Prologomena, by Ezra Pound.