In Greensward, the imagination not only reconstructs but reinvents the past in accord with the author’s greater aim, to bring humans and nature into a harmonious relationship. Boston Review

 “Repton was determined to make the earth live up to art,” Swensen writes, and if that proved impossible, he wanted it “to fall apart, to break your heart.” What truly distinguishes Greensward is its underlying argument that humans and animals not only take aesthetic pleasure in their surroundings but, under the right circumstances, can also share that pleasure with each other.—Brian M. Reed, Boston Review

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