Adam Nicolson

In the footsteps of the Romantic poets

Fiona Sampson conjures many heroes of Romanticism in her walks around England in pursuit of the ‘spirit of beauty’

‘The Rising of the Skylark’, by Samuel Palmer. [Getty Images]

  • Starlight Wood: Walking Back to the Romantic Countryside

    Fiona Sampson

    Corsair, pp. 350, £20

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