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Editorial
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WELCOME TO the Pastoral issue of English. I am reminded in putting together this issue that sometimes the most successful plan is to have no plan at all. Three essays by Sue Edney, Iain Twiddy, and Lucy Tunstall on the work of William Barnes, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath all arrived independently, yet collectively they explore different ideas of the pastoral. Harriet Tarlo was invited to contribute to this issue, and in her introductory essay to the forthcoming anthology The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry discusses the genesis of the term radical landscape, and the ways it is, and is not, like