A Green and Pagan Land

<p> British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's <I>The Wind in the Willows</I> informed later British films and television dramas such as <I>The Owl Service</I> (1969-70), <I>Blood on Satan's Claw</I> (1971), <