Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers, 9781851498956
Hardcover
A book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Wordsworth’s Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise provides a vivid account of Wordsworth as a gardening poet who not only wrote about gardens and flowers but also designed - and physical…

Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers

The Spirit of Paradise

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  • Hardcover

    232 pages

  • Release Date

    27 June 2018

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Summary

A book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Wordsworth’s Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise provides a vivid account of Wordsworth as a gardening poet who not only wrote about gardens and flowers but also designed - and physically worked in - his gardens. Wordsworth’s Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise is a book of two halves. The first section focuses on the gardens that Wordsworth made at Grasmere and Rydal in…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781851498956
ISBN-10:1851498958
Author:Peter Dale, Brandon C. Yen
Publisher:ACC Art Books
Imprint:ACC Art Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:232
Release Date:27 June 2018
Weight:1.08kg
Dimensions:254mm x 177mm
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Critics Review

‘Well researched and beautifully designed.’ – Peter Parker, Hortus Magazine

About The Author

Peter Dale

Peter Dale took his degree at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is a poet, musician, antiquarian bookbinder and gardener who has contributed numerous articles to Hortus, the prestigious British horticultural journal. He is the author of a forthcoming book about the Irish garden and its spirit. Peter has lectured widely on music and literature, for the WEA and the Wordsworth Conference Foundation, amongst other institutions. Brandon C. Yen received his doctorate at Queens’ College, Cambridge and is now a research fellow at University College Cork, where he works on Wordsworth’s connections with Ireland. He is the author of a book-length study of Wordsworth’s long poem, The Excursion (Liverpool University Press, 2018). In 2017, Brandon curated an exhibition on ‘Wordsworth’s Flowers’ for the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere.

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