Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical VerseSarah Maguire Chatto & Windus, 2001 - 344 Seiten From Thomas Campion's The Garden in Her Face (1617) to Paul Muldoon's Milkweed and Monarch (1994), via The Song of Solomon and poetry by Marvel, Keats and Tennyson, Sarah Maguire has gathered together a selection of old and new botanical poems to appeal to all tastes. |
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... women were , and are , so deep - seated as to be almost unquestioned . The term ' deflowering ' referred to the loss of a woman's virginity and ' flowers ' was a wide - spread euphemism for menstruation during the nineteenth century ...
... women were , and are , so deep - seated as to be almost unquestioned . The term ' deflowering ' referred to the loss of a woman's virginity and ' flowers ' was a wide - spread euphemism for menstruation during the nineteenth century ...
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... women who resist them of their mortal vulnerability . Robert Herrick's floral carpe diem lyrics are an obvious example , as is Edmund Waller's famous poem , ' Go Lovely Rose ' ( 1645 ) . Conversely , other men poets compare women to ...
... women who resist them of their mortal vulnerability . Robert Herrick's floral carpe diem lyrics are an obvious example , as is Edmund Waller's famous poem , ' Go Lovely Rose ' ( 1645 ) . Conversely , other men poets compare women to ...
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... women and small flowers are simply tossed to one side . The impact she had on women poets , especially those expressing desire in poems about flowers , is revolutionary . Dickinson's influ- ence can be seen in the work of most women ...
... women and small flowers are simply tossed to one side . The impact she had on women poets , especially those expressing desire in poems about flowers , is revolutionary . Dickinson's influ- ence can be seen in the work of most women ...
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Wild Onion Myrna Stone | 6 |
Snowdrop Ted Hughes | 12 |
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth | 19 |
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