Versed in Living Nature
eBook - ePub

Versed in Living Nature

Wordsworth's Trees

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eBook - ePub

Versed in Living Nature

Wordsworth's Trees

About this book

Verdant with illustrations, a meditation upon the rootedness of trees in Wordsworth's writing and beyond. This is the first book to address William Wordsworth's profound identification of the spirit of nature in trees. It looks at what trees meant to him, and how he represented them in his poetry and prose: the symbolic charm of blasted trees, a hawthorn at the heart of Irish folk belief, great oaks that embodied naval strength, yews that tell us about both longevity and the brevity of human life. Linking poetry and literary history with ecology, Versed in Living Nature explores intricate patterns of personal and local connections that enabled trees—as living things, cultural topics, horticultural objects, and even commodities—to be imagined, theorized, discussed, and exchanged. In this book, the literary past becomes the urgent present.

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Yes, you can access Versed in Living Nature by Peter Dale,Brandon C. Yen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Art General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781789146448
eBook ISBN
9781789146431
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Between the Royal Oak and the Liberty Tree
  8. 2 An Ash Tree in Cambridge
  9. 3 Yews and the Earth
  10. 4 Ways of Seeing
  11. 5 Gardens and Parklands
  12. 6 Peregrinations
  13. 7 Scotland, 1803
  14. 8 Burns Taking Root in Cumbria
  15. 9 A Voyage to Ireland
  16. Epilogue
  17. REFERENCES
  18. FURTHER READING
  19. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  20. PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  21. INDEX