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(3.33) | Ingen | The poetic appreciations of gardens by Andrew Marvell and John Keats sit alongside the horticultural passions of Frances Hodgson Burnett and the mythic power of gardens as described by Charlotte Brontë and William Blake. Editor and avid gardener Philip Robinson has paid attention to the small, private plot as much as the grand aristocratic and imperial gardens - from medieval Japan to English Landscape to suburban Arizona - and this collection is sure to inspire and enchant gardeners everywhere.… (mere) |
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▾Referencer Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder. Wikipedia på engelskIngen ▾Bogbeskrivelser The poetic appreciations of gardens by Andrew Marvell and John Keats sit alongside the horticultural passions of Frances Hodgson Burnett and the mythic power of gardens as described by Charlotte Brontë and William Blake. Editor and avid gardener Philip Robinson has paid attention to the small, private plot as much as the grand aristocratic and imperial gardens - from medieval Japan to English Landscape to suburban Arizona - and this collection is sure to inspire and enchant gardeners everywhere. ▾Biblioteksbeskrivelser af bogens indhold No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThingmedlemmers beskrivelse af bogens indhold
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Humanity had its genesis in the Garden of Eden, after all, and it was not sex or pride but rather succumbing to the lure of the apple that caused our expulsion from Paradise.
And, it would appear, we have been trying to regain that harmony of man and nature ever since, whether it manifests in a Zen stone garden, a Japanese miniature garden, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or the traditional walled suburban garden.
The Faber Book of Gardens is a collection of writings in every genre – poems, prose, songs and sagas – about gardens, dating from ‘Eden’ – the beginning of time according to the People of the Book – to the present.
Most of the passages are in English [although a fair number are translations] and we can trace a horticultural literary path dating from Homer [ca 800 BC] and winding its way through Bible Times to the Roman Empire and on to England – with occasional side trips to Europe.
A book about gardens, not gardening, so this is hardly the forum in which to search for tips: an essay by Marcus Porcius Cato gives advice on Planting Asparagus which is probably still practical today, but ‘how to’ essays are few and far between.
To say this is an anthology of Inspirational Extracts smacks of Born-Again New-Ageism and Pseudo-Spirituality – yet how else to describe a book that includes a piece on ‘Poison Gardens’, rare, beautiful and deadly plants with a fascinatingly fatal history?
More intriguing still are the pages on ‘Living Roofs’: why use tin, tile or thatch over your garage, sheds or balconies when you could plant an eco-friendly fairy tale moss, lichen or wildflower roof, making you the most popular home-owner in your suburb with all the birds, bees and butterflies?
Then there is the charmingly innocent section on Garden Nuisances in which an English gardener in the 1940s bemoans the hares, rabbits, badgers, moles, mice, rats, adders, slugs, ants, snails and rose beetles that threaten his plants.
For the most part however this book contains elements from plays, poems and popular fictional prose which are motivated or inspired by gardens and everything they represent.
Shakespeare, in King Richard II, compares a Kingdom to a garden in that both need to be nurtured and governed: DH Lawrence is sexual in his metaphors involving cultivated landscapes – references to a bush might not necessarily mean a leafy shrub...
Tennyson’s Marianna in her lonely moated grange, Keats Ode to Melancholy, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Secret Garden, Pope and his Essays, Lewis Carroll with his Garden of Live Flowers from Through the Looking Glass, Bronte’s description of a stroll through the grounds in Jane Eyre…
Pliny, Shelly, Flaubert, Homer, Browning, Yeats, Virgil, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Hardy – all famous, all wrote fairly extensively on the delights of the garden, yet none of them come close to the heartfelt lines by an obscure Victorian which, unaccountably, are missing from this book.
A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot
Fringed pool
Fern’d grot –
The veriest school
Of peace: and yet the fool
Contends that God is not –
Not God! In gardens! When eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
‘Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Thomas Edward Browne
1830 – 1897
Browne found the proof of God’s existence in a garden and indeed literature and scripture are determined to intertwine Godhead and humanity – like bindweed and honeysuckle – in a symbolic spiritual/horticultural sacrament.
Atheists, agriculturalists and agnostics, anyone soothed by fragrance, perfume, greenery – or merely organised aesthetics – will love the Faber Book of Gardens, a charming compilation and inspiration aesthetic instruction all in one. ( )