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Veronica Fowler's comprehensive step-by-step manual shows you
not only how to install your water garden, but maintain it entirely
on your own."Backyard Water Gardens" teaches you how to install
liners, pre-formed shapes, containers, and aboveground pools and
fountains. From there, it helps you choose plants, add them to your
garden, fertilize, prune, divide, and ward off pests and diseases.
But Fowler's book goes far beyond the basics, covering all the
maintenance and troubleshooting of water feature hardscapes--from a
rip in a liner, to a damaged pool, to maintaining equipment and
filters (including seasonal maintenance for winter care). Veronica
Fowler's "Backyard Water Gardens" allows you to fully enjoy the
convenience and versatility of water gardening, all while
maintaining it with ease for years to come."Backyard Water Gardens"
is truly an all-inclusive manual, encompassing every style, type,
and size of water feature imaginable. No matter the "feel" you wish
to convey in your garden--casual, formal, or whimsical--Fowler's
book enables you to create it with confidence. Your range of
hardscape options is incredibly vast, from small, container-sized
fountains that complement any space with added sound and movement,
to large in-ground or aboveground ponds and streams. Larger
installations not only provide soothing, rejuvenating sights and
sounds; they can also house fish and plants and passively attract
natural wildlife to your backyard.
Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has
often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into
the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of
eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in
what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of
the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and
modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings
of Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), arguably Pindar's greatest
modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation
of Pindar's odes as literature. Building on recent trends in
criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and
the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of
Pindar's odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh
discussion of many facets of Pindar's astonishing art, including
the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the
poet's persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of
Pindar's views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of
language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great
thinker.
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