Download or read book Local Attachments written by Fiona Stafford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can poems firmly attached to particular regions speak to readers far away? Why do writers turn to their own communities for materials? This book explores the literature of local attachment through the consideration of works by writers - Heaney, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Lamb, and Dickens - whose feeling for place is especially evident.