Interesting Guardian article from Alexandra Harris in response to recent floods and extreme weather:
Drip, drip, drip, by day and night
From the April showers that begin The Canterbury Tales to Shakespearean storms to sodden Victorian classics, English literature is full of rain and flooding. Alexandra Harris on how every era creates its own kind of downpour…
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/14/english-literature-rain-flooding
