A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and LiteratureThis is a perfect bedside book for the literate gardener and makes a terrific gardener's gift book. It is an entertaining survey of 80 plant genera, with a multitude of references to, and extracts from, myth and literature from Shakespeare to the Victorian language of flowers. Based on prodigious research, it includes much literature that has fallen into undeserved obscurity, as well as selections from the great poets. It is a delightful study of the influence of the world's flora on humanity, from the mundane to the mystical. |
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Crítica de los usuarios - keylawk - LibraryThingThe author, not content with being in the company of plants, indulges literature as well. He has tracked down literary and scientific references to flowers, with full botanical credentials. Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictWard, a retired environmental scientist and gardener, has gathered quotations from poems, myths, novels, and plays from ancient Greece to the 19th century to illustrate the literary history of 80 ... Leer comentario completo
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| Título | A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature |
| Autor | Bobby J. Ward |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | Timber Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0881924695, 9780881924695 |
| Largo | 446 páginas |
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