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England in 2001. The “Foot and Mouth” epidemic leads to the slaughter of millions of animals.The farming community is in crisis, and disruption extends throughout the country. National Parks and National Trust properties are no-go areas. In Devonshire, “all moorland, public footpaths and bridleways” are closed to the public; in Cumbria, tourists are cautioned that they “should not . . . go onto farmland (including the high fells).”2 The tourist industry has slumped, and the Wordsworth Trust issues a circular, warning that “if footpaths on the hills are still closed [the annual Wordsworth Summer Conference] will have to do without the walks on the fells that were so much a part of the Wordsworths’ lives and have become so much a part of ours.”
When the green field comes off like a lid
Revealing what was much better hid . . .
—W. H.Auden,“The Witnesses”1
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W. H. Auden, “The Witnesses,” The English Auden: Poems, Essays, & Dramatic Writings, 1927–1939, ed.Edward Mendelson (London and New York:Random House, 1977)
Philip Larkin, review of John Betjeman, The Collected Poems of John Betjeman (London: John Murray, 1958)
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Philip Larkin: Collected Poems, ed. Anthony Thwaite (London: Faber and Faber, 1988)
Edward Thomas, Collected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1979).
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, ed. Adam Phillips (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1990)
James Thomson, “The Seasons” and “The Castle of Indolence,” ed. James Sambrook (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).
Jeremy Paxman, The English: A Portrait of a People (London: M. Joseph, 1998)
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Roe, N. (2004). Eating Romantic England: The Foot And Mouth Epidemic And Its Consequences. In: Morton, T. (eds) Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981394_6
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