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Wordsworth's gardens / Carol Buchanan ; photographs by Richard Buchanan.
Van Pelt Library PR5892.B65 B83 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchanan, Carol, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Knowledge and learning--Botany.
- Wordsworth, William.
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
- Botany.
- Landscape gardening--England--History--19th century.
- Landscape gardening.
- Gardens--England--Design--History--19th century.
- Gardens.
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Homes and haunts.
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Aesthetics.
- Poets, English--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, English.
- Aesthetics.
- Design.
- History.
- England.
- Gardeners--England--Biography.
- Gardeners.
- Gardens in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Readers of the poems of William Wordsworth have encountered his love of the garden and gardening. Each year, thousands visit the grounds of Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount to see the Wordsworth family gardens. You can enjoy their beauty again and again in this full-color photostudy by Carol and Richard Buchanan.
- The text definitively connects the themes of Wordsworth's poetry to his philosophy of gardening, demonstrating how nature in the raw and rocky Lake District shaped the sensibilities of a poet and gardener who would not be enslaved by the tastes of his day.
- Using poems, letters, and journals of Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, Carol Buchanan pictures Wordsworth as poet, gardener, and devoted family man. Illuminating the gardens and the Lake District are three never-before-published garden plans and more than a hundred breathtaking photographs by Richard Buchanan.
- Contents:
- Prelude to Wordsworth: Landscape Design and the Concept of Nature in the Eighteenth Century 3
- Design and Discovery 4
- The Era of Inspired Discovery 10
- The Leasowes 14
- The Picturesque 16
- 1 The Ode and the Dung 23
- 2 The Love of Flowers: Dove Cottage 55
- A Gardening Partnership 60
- The Garden's Structure 64
- The Love of Gardening 72
- The Plants 74
- Life in the Garden 81
- The Garden Today 83
- 3 The Garden as Poem: The Winter Garden at Coleorton 89
- A Gift of Friendship 90
- Beginning of the Winter Garden 94
- The Design 95
- The Winter Garden Today 109
- 4 Rock of Ages: The Rydal Mount Garden 115
- The Situation of the Property 118
- The Traumatic Years 120
- Poetry of the Rydal Mount Years 123
- Spiritual Shift 125
- The Symbolism of Stone 129
- Dora's Rock 130
- The Healing Garden 134
- Building the Garden 135
- The Terraces 138
- The Voice of Waters 154
- The Plantings 159
- The Kitchen Garden 172
- The Garden Today 173
- 5 Wordsworth's Garden Legacy 177
- Portfolio of Lake District Scenes 183
- Appendix A Wordsworth's Gardens in His Poetry 195
- Appendix B The Plants 199
- Appendix C Description of the Garden by Christopher Wordsworth, Jr. 205
- Appendix D Rhododendrons Introduced into British Cultivation 207.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 089672445X
- OCLC:
- 45002063
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