The poet as botanist

Description:

"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. A concluding chapter looks closely at the meanings, old or new, that plants retained or obtained in the violent twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Botany,  Knowledge,  History and criticism,  Philosophy of nature in literature,  Nature in literature,  English poetry,  Botany in literature,  Perception in literature,  Literature and science,  Knowledge and learning

People: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930),  Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802),  George Crabbe (1754-1832),  John Clare (1793-1864),  John Ruskin (1819-1900)