ABSTRACT
Those who would dwell in Arcadia seek out that secret Eden because of its isolation from the troubled world and its safety from the arrogant demands of those who would deny freedom, curtail human action, and destroy innocence and love. Arcadia can be a happy valley, a blessed isle, a pastoral retreat, or a green forest fastness. Those who search for that hidden paradise are often lovers, or the truly wise, trying, as one questing pilgrim put it, to escape from “the clank of the world.”1
