The Poet as Botanist
by
M. M. Mahood
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521862361
ISBN-13
9780521862363
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 12th, 2008
Print length
282 Pages
Weight
590 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.90 cms
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Exploring the work of writers including D. H. Lawrence, John Clare, George Crabbe and Ted Hughes, Molly Mahood considers the responses of poets to botany in its Georgian and Victorian heyday, and to the ecology that has largely replaced it.
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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