A book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise provides a vivid account of Wordsworth as a gardening poet who not only wrote about gardens and flowers but also designed - and physically worked in - his gardens.
A book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spiri...
Through a wide variety of verbal and pictorial references, this book demonstrates how Wordsworth's iconography, albeit apparently `collateral', makes crucial contributions to his central arguments and preoccupations in The Excursion, as well as in his other major works.
Through a wide variety of verbal and pictorial references, this book demonstrates how Wordsworth's iconography, albeit apparently `collateral', makes ...
