Livre de Toutes Sortes de Fleurs D'Apres Nature

Livre de Toutes Sortes de Fleurs D'Apres Nature is a book of floral engravings by Franco-Flemish painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer.   Each page shows a flower in minute anatomical detail and has been widely used by tapestry makers for accurate patterning.  
" In the twentieth century the poet Wallace Stevens invoked Monnoyer's title Livre de toutes sortes de fleurs d'après nature in his philosophical poem "Esthéthique du Mal", whose centrality to Stevens' work was stressed by Harold Bloom; for Stevens "all sorts of flowers" epitomized the anodyne and sentimental poem, attempting to address and assuage "all sorts of misfortune."
==References==
Bloom, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate. (Cornell University Press) 1977:225f.
Wallace Stevens Concordance