The Poet as Botanist

ISBN-13: 9780521862363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 282 str.

M. M. Mahood

Opis

Examines plants and botany in the writing of D. H. Lawrence and John Clare, among others.

Recenzje

'Mahood's writing is both inviting and engaging, and the chapters on Erasmus Darwin, Crabbe and Clare make particularly important contributions to the growing body of scholarship on these hitherto underexplored poets.' Annotated Bibliography of English Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Primroses at Dove Cottage and Down House; 2. Erasmus Darwin's feeling for the organism; 3. Crabbe's Slimy Mallows and Suffocated Clover; 4. John Clare: bard of the wild flowers; 5. Ruskin's flowers of evil; 6. D. H. Lawrence, botanist; 7. Poetry and photosynthesis.