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“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer” Dylan Thomas, 18 Poems (1934) This book traces for the first time a period of green heritage in English art. During the past two centuries especially, English artists have envisioned the pastoral mode. Their pastoral art uses landscapes of home – often quite specific localities – to shape vision. The history begins with Samuel Palmer, who transplanted the act of vision from his mentor William Blake’s heroic figures into the soil of English landscape art. Palmer’s landscape vision was more influential than has yet been recognised. His tradition has been enriched by artists of every subsequent generation, from Nash via Sutherland, Piper and Minton, to the current group of artists working under the name of Ruralists.