STARLIGHT WOOD: WALKING BACK/ ROMANTIC COUNTRYSIDE (PB)

For the writers, philosophers and artists known as the Romantics, the countryside wasn’t timeless and eternal - it was a place where radical change was taking place. In this book, acclaimed biographer and poet Fiona Sampson traces their footsteps across ten landscapes from Kent to Kintyre. Moving between art, politics, agriculture, science and philosophy, and punctuated by the author’s personal reflections, it explores the cultural inheritance of Romanticism, and offers a unique sidelight on the lives of figures such as Shelley, Wordsworth, Constable and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.