...0 25 05 2023 Rural writers of the 1920s and 1930s bemoaned as they documented the blights upon landscape that Nan Fairbrother assigns to a post-World War II generation. This chapter argues that rural ‘middlebrow’ literature, represented by works of Richard Llewellyn, Mary Webb, Stella Gibbons...

...-garde highbrow middlebrow Victor in Poesy, Victor in Romance, Cloud–weaver of phantasmal hopes and fears, French of the French and Lord of human tears, Child–lover; Bard whose fame–lit laurels glance Darkening the wreaths of all that would advance, Beyond our strait, their claim to be thy peers...