Former Guardian first book award winner Alexandra Harris widens her scope with this study of the relationship of artists and writers with sun, wind and snow
“My subject is not the weather itself,” declares Alexandra Harris at the beginning of this gripping volume, “but the weather as it is daily recreated in the human imagination.” She has produced a remarkable, encyclopaedic personal survey of literary and artistic responses to English sun and rain and cloud.
Alexandra Harris considers both the collision and the collusion between inner and outer weather
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