Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature ISBN: 9780773567535 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in literature; Landscape in literature; Landscape;
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