The poet as botanist
By: M.M. Mahood.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521862363
Subjects: Darwin, Erasmus, -- 1731-1802 -- Knowledge -- Botany; Crabbe, George, -- 1754-1832 -- Knowledge -- Botany; Clare, John, -- 1793-1864 -- Knowledge -- Botany; Ruskin, John, -- 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Botany; Lawrence, D. H. -- 1885-1930 -- Knowledge -- Botany; English poetry -- History and criticism; Botany in literature; Nature in literature; Perception in literature; Philosophy of nature in literature
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Primroses at dove cottage and down house; title: Erasmus Darwin's feeling for the organism; title: Crabbe's slimy mallows and suffocated clover; title: John Clare: bard of the wild flowers; title: Ruskin's flowers of evil; title: D. H. Lawrence, botanist; title: Poetry and photosynthesis.