Le Simplegadi

Il mio articolo indaga il ruolo del paesaggio in tre racconti di Walter Pater tradizionalmente legati tra loro: “The Child in the House”, “An English Poet” e “Emerald Uthwart”. Dopo aver mostrato la rigogliosità fisica e visionaria del paesaggio pateriano attraverso la sua imagery sinestetica e mitopoietica (giardini e fiori sono tra le immagini più ricorrenti in questi ‘ritratti immaginari’), analizzerò dunque la peculiare dialettica e fusione, in queste narrazioni, tra l’ambiente umano e quello naturale, tra arte e natura. Letto da questa prospettiva, “An English Poet”, testo ancora poco studiato, pare impostare un confronto tra l’idea ruskiniana di natura e quella pateriana, offrendo così proficue aggiunte tanto alla complessa relazione tra i due autori quanto all’ecocritica vittoriana.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-79

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