Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical VerseRandom House, 11.01.2011 - 384 Seiten This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions. Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems of the twenty-first century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry. |
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... European art. This period also marked the arrival in Europe of an astonishing number of new plant species — notably tulips, narcissi, hyacinths, crown imperials, irises, anemones and lilies — largely from the Levant as a result of the ...
... European traders there , a move which later led to the establishment of plantations and to the island's colonisation . It's impossible to understand the significance of plants in British culture without grasping the centrality of ...
... natural world had for poets of the period . Romanticism crossed the Atlantic to America in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803–82 ) who met Coleridge and Wordsworth during his tour of Europe in 1832-33 . On returning home.
The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse Sarah Maguire. his tour of Europe in 1832-33 . On returning home he published Nature , a work which stressed the transcendental importance of the natural world and accorded special importance to ...
... the lone green places where they be, And the sweet clothing of the maple tree. (1842–64, 1920) Acer campestre field or hedge maple Europe, including Britain Marianne Moore The Sycamore Against a gun-metal sky I saw. ACERACEAE: MAPLE FAMILY.