The Poet as Botanist
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521862363
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Poetry & poets; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Botany in literature; English poetry; History and criticism; Nature in literature
Description: "Besides exploring the relationship between poetic and scientific responses to the green world within the context of humanity's changing concepts of its own place in the ecosphere, Molly Mahood considers the part that flowering plants played in the daily lives, and therefore in the literary work of a number of writers who could all be called poet-botanists. A concluding chapter looks closely at the meanings, old or new, that plants retained or obtained in the violent twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.