Andre Gushurst-Moore: In Fields of Green, Gebunden

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Why does the idea of England as 'a green and pleasant land' persist in the modern world? Why did this pastoral vision remain so central to English self-understanding in the twentieth century, pervading poetry, painting, and classical music, as well as television, film, pop, rock, and folk music?

This engaging tour of Albion's rural imagination shows how the artistic mode that continues to define the nation has long been a source of social, political, and psychological health and cohesion, amidst the deracination, dislocation, and disorientation from traditional living with which we associate the modern condition. Through analyses of a range of locales, moods, images, and perspectives, the vision of England as the green field of home is understood as the living heart of the nation amid loss, war, and change.

No-one who still cares about the English countryside as a precious natural, cultural and artistic resource for the future can afford to miss this lyrical and wide-ranging account of our arcadian cultural inheritance.