The Poet as Botanist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780511408687; 9781281716941
Subjects: Erasmus Darwin; English poetry; Botany in literature; Perception in literature; Philosophy of nature in literature; Nature in literature
Description: Examines plants and botany in the writing of D.H. Lawrence and John Clare, among others.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on quotations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Primroses at Dove Cottage and Down House; CHAPTER 2 Erasmus Darwin's feeling for the organism; CHAPTER 3 Crabbe's slimy mallows and suffocated clover; CHAPTER 4 John Clare: bard of the wild flowers; CHAPTER 5 Ruskin's flowers of evil; CHAPTER 6 D.H. Lawrence, botanist; CHAPTER 7 Poetry and photosynthesis; Index of persons; Index of plants.