Wordsworth's gardens
By: Carol Buchanan ; photographs by Richard Buchanan.
Contributors: Buchanan, Richard.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lubbock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Knowledge -- Botany; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Homes and haunts.; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Aesthetics.; Landscape gardening -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Gardens -- England -- Design -- History -- 19th century.; Poets, English -- Homes and haunts -- England.; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.; Gardeners -- England -- Biography.; Gardens in literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In all of Wordsworth scholarship, no one has so definitively connected the themes of Wordsworth's poetry to his philosophy of gardening or has truly in one work demonstrated how nature in the raw and rocky Lake District became the soul and backbone of a poet and gardener who would not be enslaved by the tastes of his day.

Counterposing poems of the garden and the letters and journals of Wordsworth and his eloquent sister Dorothy, Carol Buchanan pictures the whole Wordsworth: poet, gardener, and devoted and long-suffering family man. Illuminating Buchanan's perspective on the gardens, and on the Lake District that shaped Wordsworth's sensibilities, are three never-before-published garden plans and more than one hundred photographs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-217)and index.