| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop. By Priscilla Paton. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2003. xx, 282 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-58465-313-2.)

In this satisfying interarts study, Priscilla Pa-ton looks anew at the pastoral in New England. Considering its prominence in both paintings and poetry between 1870 and 1950, she teases out works' rueful evocation of a past tied to the land, which does not lose its power but at the same time cannot reshape the present or serve as a guideline for the future. Her practitioners of this pastoral are the painters Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and Ed-ward Hopper and the poets Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop. Each of these artists is difficult for critics to place, a strain that is fundamental to their participation in a modern pastoral tradition. Paton brings into her discussions a number of other poets and artists to substantiate her reading. She also draws on critics and scholars in feminist studies, eco-studies, postcolonial studies, cultural histories, and regional studies of New England and of the urban landscape.

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