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The Poet as Botanist (Paperback)
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The Poet as Botanist (Paperback)
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For centuries, poets have been ensnared - as one of their number,
Andrew Marvell put it - by the beauty of flowers. Then, from the
middle of the eighteenth century onward, that enjoyment was
enriched by a surge of popular interest in botany. 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: Erasmus Darwin, George Crabbe, John
Clare, John Ruskin and D. H. Lawrence. A concluding chapter looks
closely at the meanings, old or new, that plants retained or
obtained in the violent twentieth century.
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