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  1. The poet as botanist
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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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  2. The poet as botanist
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780521188722; 0521188725
    Edition: 1. pbk ed.
    Scope: XI, 269 S., Ill.
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    Originally published: 2008

  3. <<The>> poet as botanist
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
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    Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780521862363; 9780521188722; 0521188725
    Edition: 1. paperback ed.
    Scope: XI, 269 S. : Ill
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    Originally published: 2008

  4. The poet as botanist
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
    11BRC1871
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    Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal
    BRD1610
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780521862363; 9780521188722; 0521188725
    Edition: 1. paperback ed.
    Scope: XI, 269 S., Ill
    Notes:

    Originally published: 2008