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Author | : Sarah Maguire |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2011-01-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 144641311X |
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This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions. Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems of the twenty-first century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry. There are thirty poems about roses, by poets as diverse as Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker and the South African, Seitlhamo Motsapi; but there are also sections devoted to more unusual plants such as the mandrake, the starapple and the tamarind. An ex-gardener, the celebrated poet Sarah Maguire brings her extensive horticultural knowledge to bear on all the poems, arranging them into botanical families, identifying the plants being written about and writing a fascinating introduction. Whether you are a poetry lover, a gardener, a botanist, or simply the purchaser of the occasional bunch of flowers, this unique anthology allows you to luxuriate amidst the world's flora.
Author | : Thomas WILLCOCKS |
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Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1835 |
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Author | : Sarah Maguire |
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Release | : 2011-03-22 |
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ISBN | : 9781446413135 |
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This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions. Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems of the twenty-first century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry. There are thirty poems about roses, by poets as diverse as Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker and the South African, Seitlhamo Motsapi; but there are also sections devoted to more unusual plants such as the mandrake, the starapple and the tamarind. An ex-gardener, the celebrated poet Sarah Maguire brings her extensive horticultural knowledge to bear on all the poems, arranging them into botanical families, identifying the plants being written about and writing a fascinating introduction. Whether you are a poetry lover, a gardener, a botanist, or simply the purchaser of the occasional bunch of flowers, this unique anthology allows you to luxuriate amidst the world's flora.
Author | : Thomas WILLCOCKS |
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Release | : 1834 |
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Download Flora Poetica; or, poetry on flowers; selected and arranged by T. W. With plates by G. Banks. (Additional ... pieces.). Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Harriet Hjorth |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Swedish poetry |
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Author | : Thomas Willcocks |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Flowers in literature |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1834 |
Genre | : Flower in literature |
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Author | : Anon |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9780143004318 |
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As Australians, the natural landscape is engrained in our consciousness. Even while most of us live in the cities and suburbs, we identify with and appreciate how unique and picturesque our homeland is - in particular our amazing vegetation.Other books have aimed to capture in images and words Australia's vast sweeping desert plains, the gum-tree-lined river banks, or the cattle grazing over fields of golden grasses. In contrast, Flora Poetica zooms in to focus on the most exquisite and spectacular details of some of our native plant species.Take a stroll through the Australian bush and you are likely to walk right past some of our most gorgeous and distinctive plants without even noticing. Flora Poetica gives readers a close-up view of some well-known species, as well as a glimpse of our more elusive plant-life. Each stunning photograph is complimented with an Australian poem, quote or extract from a literary work that explores the splendour of our landscapes.
Author | : Stephen Trudgill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2022-02-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1108963137 |
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How we view nature transforms the world around us. People rehearse stories about nature which make sense to them. If we ask the question 'why conserve nature?', and the answers are based on myths, then are these good myths to have? Scientific knowledge about the environment is fundamental to ideas about how nature works. It is essential to the conservation endeavour. However, any conservation motivation is nested within a society's meanings of nature and the way society values it. Given the therapeutic and psychological significance of nature for us and our culture, this book considers the meanings derived from the poetic and emotional attachment to a sense of place, which is arguably just as important as scientific evidence. The functional significance of species is important, but so too is the therapeutic value of nature, together with the historic and spiritual meanings entwined in a human feeling for landscape and wildlife.