Author: Henry Gardiner AdamsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Flowers; their moral, language, and poetry, ed. by H.G. Adams
Author: Henry Gardiner AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Flowers; Their Moral Language and Poetry
Author: Henry Gardiner ADAMSPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Language of Flowers
Author: Jane HollowayPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1101907959
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A uniquely international anthology--in a beautiful pocket-sized hardcover--that explores the richly symbolic expressiveness of flowers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Floral symbols adorn the earliest poetry, and over the centuries they became increasingly entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, and with herbal folklore. By the early nineteenth century the "Language of Flora" was an elaborately refined system, especially in England and America, where books listing flower meanings and illustrating them with verse were perennial bestsellers. Transcending the charm of its Victorian predecessors, this anthology creates an extended, updated, and more robust floral anthology for the twenty-first century, presenting poets through the ages from Sappho, Shakespeare, and Shelley to Ted Hughes, Mary Oliver, and Louise Glück, and across the world from Cuba to Korea, Russia to Zimbabwe. Eastern cultures, rich in flower associations, are well represented: Tang poems celebrating chrysanthemums and peonies, Zen poems about orchids and lotus flowers, poems about jasmine and marigolds from India, and roses and narcissi from Persia, the Ottoman empire, and the Arabic world. The most timeless human emotions and concepts--love, hope, despair, fidelity, grief, beauty, and mortality--find colorful expression in The Language of Flowers.
Women Poets in the Victorian Era
Author: Fabienne MoinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134776608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections between women and nature during the period. At the same time, she challenges essentialist discourses that assume innate affinities between women and the natural world. Rather, Moine shows, Victorian women poets mobilised these alliances to defend common interests and express their engagement with social issues. While well-known poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti are well-represented in Moine's study, she pays particular attention to lesser known writers such as Mary Howitt or Eliza Cook who were popular during their lifetimes or Edith Nesbit, whose verse has received scant critical attention so far. She also brings to the fore the poetry of many non-professional poets. Looking to their immediate cultural environments for inspiration, these women reconstructed the natural world in poems that raise questions about the validity and the scope of representations of nature, ultimately questioning or undermining social practices that mould and often fossilise cultural identities.
Flora Symbolica; or, the language and sentiment of flowers. Including floral poetry, original and selected ... With ... illustrations, printed in colours by Terry
Author: John Henry IngramPublisher:
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Category : Flower language
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Herald of peace. July 1850-Jan./March 1930. Oct. /Dec. 1938, Jan./April 1939
Author: International peace societyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Sabbath Souvenir; Intended to Remind Christian Professors of Their Obligations to Observe the Sacred Day, Etc. (An Essay on the Sabbath, by ... T. H. Skinner.).
Author: The Monthly Literary Advertiser
Author: Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
Author: Guide to the Literature of Botany
Author: Benjamin Daydon JacksonPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description