| Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows is considered as one of the most poetic and classic works in the history of the British literature. The author describes the beautiful natural scenery, friendship and sincere love in the works, with unparalleled elegant language. It means to create a little world filled with warmth of love and beauty, according to readers’ aesthetic tendencies and psychology, so that people can gain the spirit of joy, and the purification of the soul from it. On the other hand, this book aims at developing people’s aesthetic ability toward natural beauty, the beauty of human being, and the beauty of language. The work also contains many important aesthetic features in the natural beauty, literal language, and the harmonious themes and characters. This paper explores in depth the aesthetic features in The Wind in the Willows, and systematically expounds them from different aspects, intending to give a new interpretation of the novel to the readers, and to promote the in-depth study of the novel. |