EXAM - English literature 2
landscape garden of today – massive enclosure and creation of present-day field system with hedges and
clumps of trees.
Image of nation gentle and pastoral, peopled by contented rural workers happy with their loft (reality was
far different). Such reassessment of rural landscape led to „discovery of Britain”. Travelling, touring
through country.
Nature had been recast like a painting. Now Nature was investigated to see where she had panited her own
pictures unassisted.
30. The mid-18th-century culture of sensibility
Expression of heightened, intense human feelings, ones that embodied a new kind of refinement of
response by the educated classes. This attribute to establish different type of human: the man or woman of
„feeling”. Return to mtion, could happen when extremes of religious enthusiasm of 17th C were distant
memory. Man ruled by feelings and passions, not reason.
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