Margaret Drabble on the Romantics (Pocket Perspectives)

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A highly acclaimed exploration of the way in which the landscape has both influenced and been represented in British Romantic literature

Margaret Drabble on the Romantics presents an image of Britain as seen through the eyes of some of its most celebrated authors. Many of the Romantics, as well as their successors, are closely associated with particular landscapes – the Wordsworths with the Lake District, Walter Scott with the Scottish Borders, the Brontë sisters with West Yorkshire. Margaret Drabble deepens our understanding of this connection, unpacking the Romantics' fascination with all varieties of rural landscape, from roaring seas to tranquil villages, while also exploring their writing's subtler associations.

Herself a star in the literary firmament, 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.
Extent: 88 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: 11
Publication date: 2025-05-01
Size: 18.0 x 11.6 cm
ISBN: 9780500029497

Press Reviews

This satchel-sized, forest-green volume is ripe to be taken to go and thumbed through in the setting its subjects favored: nature … An affectionate survey of the titular nineteenth-century literary movement in Britain [with] charming color reproductions of paintings and the author’s scribblings
The New Criterion




About the Author

Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime’s Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London and Somerset.

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