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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... botany and poetry, I needed to collect as many poems as I could about plants and gardens, Initially, this informal gathering was simply a teaching tool I used to help people find ways to approach writing about the garden. Then I began ...
... botany began to develop as a science, ornamental gardening was widespread, and collecting decorative plants became an increasingly fashionable hobby — culminating in the 'Tulip Fever' which gripped The Netherlands in the 1630s4. As ...
... botany didn't yet exist11. Before the Enlightenment plants were part of an ordered and hierarchical world, the divinely-ordained Book of Nature. Although their close study was encouraged, as the work of artists such as Albrecht Dürer ...
... botany was becoming an increasingly popular pursuit - particularly amongst women , for whom plant collecting offered welcome opportunities for outdoor exercise as well as intellectual stimulation14 - Clare's close attention ― to the ...
... botany ' ; later that year she and William acquired a copy of ' Withering's Botany ' , the most popular handbook then in print16 . “ The Small Celandine ' was published in 1807 , so perhaps we can imagine that the botanising outings ...