RT @GuardianTravel: Devon sent: why writers...
March 16 2015 , Written by Ola Fagbohun
RT @GuardianTravel: Devon sent: why writers can’t resist the county http://t.co/BHaD54LwMW
Ola Fagbohun (@DiverseTraveler)March 16, 2015
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Devon sent: why writers can't resist the county
It's always possible to pick holes, of course, to find fault and point the finger. John Keats described it as a "splashy, rainy, misty ... floody, muddy slipshod County". Robert Southey thought it entirely overrated and "by no means deserving of the encomiums which are passed upon it".
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