Kim Taplin believes that reverence for nature is vital to healthy spirituality and imagination. In this series of connected essays generously prefaced by poems and prose extracts, she considers how Keats, Clare, Barnes, Ruskin, Hopkins, Jefferies, Hardy, Edward Thomas, E.M. Forster, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Andrew Young, J.R.R. Tolkien and Frances Horowitz have celebrated the greenwood and responded to its erosion.
