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). Source: Wikipedia (en)