The Poet as Botanist 1st Edition by Mahood ISBN 978-0521188722 0521188725

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ISBN 10:  0521188725

ISBN 13:  978-0521188722

Author:  M. M. Mahood

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.

Table of contents: 

I 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

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