some LANDSCAPES

Specimens of the early English poets , 1790, bound by Edwards of Halifax.  Fore-edge painting of the house of Sir Thomas Claverings, Ox...

The Clyde at New Lanark, March 2011 On Saturday August 20th 1803, Coleridge and the Wordsworths arrived in Lanark.  William headed of...

Richard Skelton is interviewed by Clive Bell in the latest issue of The Wire , talking about landscape and loss and photographed on Anglezar...

Harriet Tarlo's anthology of radical landscape poetry The Ground Aslant , which I previewed in an earlier post , has now been publishe...

There is a short poem by C. P. Cavafy, ' The Morning Sea ' (1915), in which the poet stops and gazes out from the yellow shore on th...

The exterior panels of Northern Renaissance altarpieces were sometimes painted in what my computer would call 'grayscale' but what a...

I have enjoyed reading Romantic Moderns, which has much to say about the revival of interest in the English landscape before and duri...

I have been tipped off (thanks Hayden) to the rather surprising appearance on Thursday's Newsnight of a piece about Nick Papadimitriou ...

We made our way to Suffolk last weekend for the third manifestation of the Re-Enchantment project , dedicated to W.G. Sebald and landscape. ...

As I write this I'm listening to the London Sinfonietta recording of Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles... , which was inspired...

Xie Youyu (or Xie Kun) was a Jin Dynasty scholar-official.  One day, the story goes, Emperor Ming asked him how he thought he compared with ...

Here are ten examples of landscape-related music released in 2010.  It is not a 'best of list' by any means, partly because I have ...

Michele Marieschi, The Rialto Bridge from the Riva del Vin, 1737 Source: Wikimedia Commons The National Gallery's recent exhibiti...

Yesterday Radio 4 broadcast a half hour documentary, 'The Wire', on the music created by wind and weather playing over fencing wi...

In his collection Slow Air (2002) Robin Robertson talks in a poem called ' The Larches of Zernikow ' about lines of trees planted b...