THE LIMITS OF ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING: THIRLMERE LAKE, HETCH HETCHY VALLEY & STORM KING MOUNTAIN

“Is then no nook of English ground secure/ From rash assault?” So begins William Wordsworth’s sonnet “On the Projected Kendal and Windemere Railroad”, published in 1844, the year he became Poet Laureate. Wordsworth’s protest against the railroad was ineffectual but his resistance inspired a later ca...

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Main Author: Paul Kane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Udine 2017-11-01
Series:Le Simplegadi
Online Access:http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/wp-content/uploads/2017/Simplegadi_17_2017_Kane.pdf