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The Oxford Book of Garden Verse
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Series: Oxford Books of Verse
Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
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ISBN10: 0192823388
ISBN13: 9780192823380
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published: May 5 1994
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.05 Depth: 7.66
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780192823380
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published: May 5 1994
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.05 Depth: 7.66
Language: English
Gardens have been all things to all people: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, safety and danger, art and nature; public spaces and private retreats, places of physical labor and metaphysical reflection. This diversity and versatility have always attracted poets, whose repertory of garden themes on paper matches what gardeners themselves have achieved on the ground.
Now, in The Oxford Book of Garden Verse, the best of this poetic tradition has been gathered. From enclosed gardens and landscape parks to Victorian flower gardens and modern patios, successive historical periods of gardening are mirrored in verse from the Middle Ages to the present day. Here is a variety of poetic expression: the metaphorical associations gardens inspire, and the detailed descriptions, both romantic and robust. And in The Oxford Book of Garden Verse, the gardener is celebrated as much as the creation, as are the mundane tasks of weeding, making compost, mowing lawns, and tending the grounds. Particularly fertile in modern examples, this delightful collection offers a wealth of literary talent to match the most abundant of gardens.
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