WEATHERLAND

A lively look at the English literary and artistic responses to the weather from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Keats and Ian McEwanIn a sweeping panorama, Weatherland allows us to witness Englands cultural climates across the centuries. Before the Norman Conquest, A nglo-Saxons living in a wintry world wrote about the coldness of exile or the shelters they had to defend against enemies outside. T he Middle Ages brought the warmth of spring/ the new lyrics were sung in praise of blossoms and cuckoos. Descriptions of a rainy nig ht are ra...[Llegir més]