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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... flower was irrelevant to Herbert , since any species would serve his poem's purpose of illuminating spiritual decline and reinvigoration . Similarly , Herrick wasn't writing about the individual flowers themselves , but using them as ...
... flowers, the rose is unsurpassed in its rich symbolic associations. It was a symbol of the Virgin Mary from early Christian times and, as Greek and Roman classical literature became available again during the Renaissance, the ...
... flowers around him could have written . In turning lowly ' weeds ' into English poetry , Clare's flower poems can be seen both as a political act – giving weight and dignity to ' common ' plants and as a gesture of love , a refusal to ...
... flowers . One Romantic poet who knew a great deal about plants was John Keats , who studied medical botany at Guy's Hospital . But although he wrote poems full of informed references to plants , he never focussed his attention on a ...
... flowers - like Wordsworth's daffodils and small Celandine - reached its peak during the late - eighteenth and early - nineteenth centuries . But it was cultivated flowers which were to become particularly fashionable during the ...