What does it mean to be “country?” Is it a location, a disposition, or an attitude? Or, as some people say of conservatism, is it something more mysterious, like a sensibility?
What is the “pastoral” in art and literature? Is it a genre or a mode? Does it depict the country in its idealized form from the point of view of a grizzled urbanite, or does it present deep truths about human life that can only be found in nature?
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