Abstract
In the study The Last of England?, Randall Stevenson refers to the idea of landscape as “the mainstay of poetic imagination” (Stevenson 2004:3). With the rise of the postmodern idiom, our relationship to the “scapes” that surround us has become increasingly problematic and the idea of place is also increasingly deferred and dis-placed. This article examines the relationship between self and “scapes” in the poetries of Jo Shapcott, Alice Oswald and Lavinia Greenlaw, who are all concerned with various “scapes” and who present different, yet connected, strategies for negotiating our relationships to them.
Highlights
In the study The Last of England?, Randall Stevenson refers to the idea of landscape as “the mainstay of poetic imagination” (Stevenson 2004:3)
For poets like Philip Larkin, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, landscapes were undoubtably vital in constructing a sense of identity and self
England”, where he points out that while “England” and “Englishness” are complicated terms, the imagined England contrived by Hughes creates a place that in many ways feels like home (O’Brien 2011: 7-8)
Summary
In the study The Last of England?, Randall Stevenson refers to the idea of landscape as “the mainstay of poetic imagination” (Stevenson 2004:3).
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