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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... There Is a Flower That Bees Prefer' [380] Emily Dickinson To a Red Clover Blossom John Clare Whinlands Seamus Heaney Gorse Fires Michael Longley Ornamental Gorse Chris Orsman LILIACEAE: LILY FAMILY Snakeshead Fritillaries Anne Ridler ...
... There are gardens mentioned in my first book, Spilt Milk, but by my second, The Invisible Mender, a whole section of the book was taken over by my experiences as an apprentice gardener. More recently, I've found myself writing poems ...
... There are more poems in Flora Poetica about roses than any other plant, and they refer to a variety of subjects, though romantic desire remains by far the most popular. Divine love is the subject of two poems, written five centuries ...
... There Is A Flower That Bees Prefer ' ( c . 1862 ) , is an exultant celebration of the flower's delicious desirability , written in terms of absolute confidence : Her Public - be the Noon- Her Providence - the Sun - Her Progress - by the ...
... there were so many poems written about plants and flowers during the twentieth century. But I think we also should note how fashionable gardens, gardening and flowers have become, especially in Britain during the past two decades, and ...