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locus amoenus
''Locus amoenus'' (Latin for "pleasant place") is a literary term which generally refers to an idealized place of safety or comfort. A ''locus amoenus'' is usually a beautiful, shady lawn or open woodland, or a group of idyllic islands, sometimes with connotations of Eden or Elysium.〔J. B. Russell, ''A History of Heaven'' (1998) p. 21〕
Ernst Robert Curtius wrote the concept's definitive formulation in his ''European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages'' (1953).〔E. R. Curtius, ''European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages'' (1953) p. 183-202〕
==Characteristics==
A ''locus amoenus'' will have three basic elements: trees, grass, and water. Often, the garden will be in a remote place and function as a landscape of the mind. It can also be used to highlight the differences between urban and rural life or be a place of refuge from the processes of time and mortality.
In some works, such gardens also have overtones of the regenerative powers of human sexuality〔For more information, see ( Evett, David. "Paradice's Only Map": The "Topos" of the "Locus Amoenus" and the Structure of Marvell's "Upon Appleton House." PMLA. 85.3(1970):504-513. )〕 marked out by flowers, springtime, and goddesses of love and fertility.〔W. Shullenberger, ''Lady in the Labyrinth'' (2008) p. 260〕
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