page_title: Locus amoenus
hierarchical_section_title: Locus amoenus
context_page_description: Locus amoenus is a literary topos involving 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.
  Ernst Robert Curtius wrote the concept's definitive formulation in his European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.
context_section_description: Locus amoenus (Latin for "pleasant place") is a literary topos involving 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.
  Ernst Robert Curtius wrote the concept's definitive formulation in his European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1953).
caption: John Constable's Wivenhoe Park, Essex: An idyllic scene featuring trees, grass, and water
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