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The Essay Dark Arcadias Episodes

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  1. Wild Nature

    5/5 Marina Warner discusses wild ecstasy and the Arcadian sea.

  2. Alexandra Harris on Country-House Dreams of Arcadia

    4/5 Literary critic Alexandra Harris explores the country-house dreams of the 20th century.

  3. Robert Burns and Scottish Arcadia

    3/5 Literary critic Nigel Leask discusses Robert Burns and Arcadia.

  4. Tom Nichols on the Depiction of Poverty

    2/5 Tom Nichols on the depiction of poverty and Renaissance paintings of beggars.

  5. Colin Burrow on Fantasies for Children

    1/5 Critic Colin Burrow discusses fantasies in the childrens' stories of Diana Wynne Jones.