Wordsworth's gardens and flowers : the spirit of paradise /
Dale, Peter(Teacher)author.
Yen, Brandon Chao-Chiauthor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: The gardens and their maker. Racedown : early digging ; Home at Grasmere : the garden at Dove Cottage ; Fingerprints, green or inky ; Weeding out the difficulties ; Denominations, but not factions ; The winter garden for Sir George and Lady Beaumont ; Wordsworth as landscape theorist ; Ideas on the ground : the garden at Coleorton ; Coleorton in retrospect ; Rydal Mount... idle mount -- Part 2: The flowers and the poetry. The daisy and 'unassuming things' ; Rose ; Bluebell and harebell ; Harebells and Dorothy Wordsworth ; Rude and mean things ; Wild flowers and ruins ; Ruins, weeds and florists' flowers ; 'Relics of Eden-land' ; Botany ; 'Of a poetic kind' ; 'An excellent botanist' ; 'William's favourite' ; Celandines pressed and sculpted ; Primroses and glow-worms.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Landscape gardening
Gardening
Gardens in literature
Plants in literature
Gardening
Gardens in literature
Landscape gardening
Natural history
Plants in literature