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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... Wither Marigolds Vicki Feaver The Fear of Flowers John Clare Thistles Ted Hughes Then Came Flowers Rita Dove Chrysanthemum 'Robin Hyde' (Iris Guiver Wilkinson) Ah! Sun-flower William Blake Sunflower Sutra Allen Ginsberg Chrome Yellow ...
... Tre ' , to a hawthorn . Other indigenous species crop up in John Donne's " The Primrose ' ( 1633 ) and Aphra Behn's ' On a Juniper - Tree ' ( 1684 ) . Mildmay Fane's ' Walk of Bay Trees ' ( 1648 ) and George Wither's ' Marigold.
... Wither's ' Marigold ' ( 1634 ) were introduced to Britain by the Romans10 . However , Herrick's ' To a Bed of Tulips ' ( 1648 ) makes a direct reference to the growing horticultural diversity of his time , and in the wonderful garden ...
... 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 taken by the Wordsworths inspired William to write the poem from ...
... Withering , first published in 1776 . 17 This ' renaming ' of the natural world by botanists can be seen as part of the project of colonial possession since the plants themselves already had perfectly good names as far as indigenous ...