Death and Nature – Grave Matters

Conservation as Consolation: trees and elegy in Wordsworth’s ‘The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome’

Trees and elegies are, in many ways, alike. Both are structures of idiosyncratic complexity, connected to others of their kind in communicating networks which only an enthusiastic excavator can detect. Given that both are connected in the cultural imagination with death and with ideas of legacy, it is no surprise that elegy is a literaryContinue reading “Conservation as Consolation: trees and elegy in Wordsworth’s ‘The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome’”