Margaret Drabble on the Romantics Spawn including dog’s tooth violets

including dog’s tooth violets

are “seaming together the fraying layers of the past and the present”

The books are clear and simple with a focus on developing conceptual understanding alongside procedural fluency

shutting their mouths and minds to the winter's events

Margaret Drabble on the Romantics Spawn including dog’s tooth violetsMargaret Drabble on the RomanticsHerself a literary luminary, Drabble illuminates how this love of place fashioned some of the Romantics greatest works. She considers the resonances of myth and legend, art and earlier literature that the Romantics found in places such as North Wales and Cornwall, and investigates how their writing has, in turn, shaped our visual attitudes, taste in landscape and relation to nature.