SOURCE: Herendeen, Wyman H. “Geography and the Myth of History: Camden and the Rivers of Concord.” In From Landscape to Literature: The River and the Myth of Geography, pp. 196-211. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1986.

In the following excerpt, Herendeen discusses the relationship between landscape and moral history in Camden's Britannia. Herendeen explicates Camden's poem De Connubio Tamae et Isis as a part of Camden's historiography, observing the themes of unity and renewal.

harmonie is on all sides so great among the elements, that it is no marvell if in their proper places … they maintaine and repose themselves with very great and friendly Concord. Whereby it appeareth, that none can induce a goodlier reason, why the water doth not overflow the earth … then to say, that it will not swerve from this agreement.

(Pierre de la Primaudaye, The French Academie)

          One fayre Par-royall hath our Iland bred           Wherof one...