whether April showers are keeping you indoors,English literature from Shakespeare to Hilary Mantel provides a vivid conception of what you’re missing with no need to get wetFor the final decade or so I’ve been devouring writing traditional and modern approximately the British countryside but recently it struck me how few of the books I love feature favorable traditional-fashioned rain. Given the fact that precipitation is something of a national obsession, it seemed remiss that the country we see through the eyes of our psychogeographers and botanists, and our naturalists,travel writers and landscape historians, is largely a fair-weather one. So I set out to remedy that, or in a small way,by going on a series of deliberately rainy expeditions and writing a book of my own approximately them.
In contrast to our non-fiction, though, and you don’t have to seek far in novels,plays and poetry to find a bit of familiar British weather. In fact, rain patters and drums and trickles its way from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Austen, or Alice Oswald and beyond. Here,in no particular order, are 10 great rainy moments set on these weather-beaten isles:
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Source: theguardian.com