HARDYMENT, C.: Pleasures of the Garden (The)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Hardyment, Christina, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2010.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Part 1: Lovers of Gardens and Lovers in Gardens: John Gerard in The Herbalist, 1597 ( 02 min., 23 sec. )

Homeward by Tao Yuan Ming ( 03 min., 55 sec. )

Bright Green and Lush ( 02 min., 54 sec. )

Purest of Human Pleasures by Sir Francis Bacon ( 06 min., 35 sec. )

A Brood of Nightingales by The Reverend William Lawson ( 06 min., 59 sec. )

Innocent Delights by Joseph Addison ( 03 min., 42 sec. )

Syringa Ivory Pure by William Cowper ( 01 min., 24 sec. )

We talk also of a Laburnum by Jane Austen ( 05 min., 44 sec. )

The Pride of My Heart by Mary Russell Mitford ( 05 min., 15 sec. )

How Little One Wants by Gertrude Jekyll ( 04 min., 22 sec. )

Enjoy Thyself a Day ( 01 min., 27 sec. )

A Garden Enclosed from Song of Solomon ( 04 min., 24 sec. )

The Lusty Month of May by Sir Thomas Malory ( 02 min., 55 sec. )

A Garden Fair by Music's Tower by Stephen Hawes ( 04 min., 34 sec. )

Make Me a Mandrake by John Donne ( 02 min., 05 sec. )

No Nook More Eden-like by Charlotte Bronte ( 07 min., 50 sec. )

The Planet of Love Is on High by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 04 min., 06 sec. )

The Cap and Bells by William Butler Yeats ( 02 min., 31 sec. )

Part 2: Grand Designs: An Abundance of Brimstone by Diodorus Siculus ( 03 min., 31 sec. )

The Blue Fig with Luscious Juice O'erflows by Homer ( 02 min., 36 sec. )

All Is Calm and Composed by Pliny the Younger ( 07 min., 04 sec. )

The Pleasant Whisking Wind by Robert Laneham ( 05 min., 50 sec. )

A Prince-like Garden by Sir Francis Bacon ( 06 min., 56 sec. )

The Genius of the Place by Alexander Pope ( 08 min., 29 sec. )

A Labyrinth of My Own Raising by Joseph Addison ( 04 min., 36 sec. )

The Horticultural Xenophobe by Tobias Smollett ( 04 min., 57 sec. )

In the Hands of the Improvers by Jane Austen ( 05 min., 45 sec. )

The Simplest Way by William Morris ( 05 min., 49 sec. )

No Plan of Any Kind by William Robinson ( 05 min., 57 sec. )

Fresh and Spruce by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester ( 01 min., 27 sec. )

A Green Thought in a Green Shade by Andrew Marvell ( 04 min., 17 sec. )

Slow but Sure by John Bunyan ( 01 min., 04 sec. )

Human Grandeur Is Very Dangerous by Voltaire ( 06 min., 18 sec. )

Prostrate Peas by Henry Jones ( 02 min., 38 sec. )

Good Taste and Not a Gaudy Pride by John Clare ( 05 min., 48 sec. )

Paying Back the Garden by Edward Bulwer Lytton ( 03 min., 57 sec. )

Roses and Lovers by Algernon Swinburne ( 05 min., 26 sec. )

Persevere! by Helena Rutherford Ely ( 04 min., 04 sec. )

It Isn't a Quite Dead Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett ( 08 min., 53 sec. )

A Nation of Gardeners by Avray Tipping ( 03 min., 01 sec. )

Even God Would Have to Have a Nose by D.H. Lawrence ( 01 min., 46 sec. )

Egoistic Reverie by William Cowper, Edmund Gosse and Forbes Sieveking ( 04 min., 13 sec. )

Ferned Grot by T.E. Brown ( 01 min., 53 sec. )

Killing and Quickening by George Herbert ( 04 min. )

A Pleasing Savour of Sweet Instructions by John Parkinson ( 03 min., 14 sec. )

Invisible Wisdom by John Gerard ( 05 min., 37 sec. )

Part 4: Solace for Body and Soul: The Belly of the Dragon from the Sakutei-ki ( 03 min., 45 sec. )

The Smoke's Smell by Edward Thomas ( 01 min., 38 sec. )

The Actual Tools by Gertrude Jekyll ( 03 min., 05 sec. )

Grubbing Weeds from Gravel-paths with Broken Dinner-knives by Rudyard Kipling ( 03 min., 27 sec. )

The Unkindest Cut by Samuel Reynolds Hole ( 03 min., 16 sec. )

Being Entirely Ignorant by Elizabeth Arnim ( 07 min., 35 sec. )

A Cast-Iron Back with a Hinge in It by Charles Dudley Warner ( 07 min., 37 sec. )

They Gardened in Bloomers, Punch, 1896 ( 01 min., 05 sec. )

Well Stricken in Years by Robert Louis Stevenson ( 08 min., 39 sec. )

A Bachelor of Husbandry by Philip Yorke ( 02 min., 50 sec. )

Snapdragons Blooming by Thomas Jefferson ( 08 min., 50 sec. )

The Auspicious Moment by William Cowper ( 03 min., 44 sec. )

Vegetable Pride by Erasmus Darwin ( 05 min., 17 sec. )

Bring Your Orange Trees Boldly Out by John Evelyn ( 08 min., 20 sec. )

Nosegays and Posies by John Gerard ( 03 min., 51 sec. )

A Full Dung Barrow by Walafrid Strabo ( 07 min., 02 sec. )

Part 3: Practical Gardening: Whatever Had the Most Blooms by Bai Juyi ( 02 min., 43 sec. )

A Garden of Sweet Scents by Gertrude Jekyll ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

Tears of Ecstasy by Reginald Farrer ( 05 min., 28 sec. )

Introduction, read by Christina Hardyment ( 05 minutes, 40 sec. )

Participant:

Timson, David, Reader -- Lesser, Anton, Reader -- Shale, Kerry, Reader -- Jeater, Frances, Reader -- Barrett, Sean, Reader -- Hardyment, Christina, Reader -- McMillan, Roy, Reader -- Wille, Clare, Reader -- Hutchinson, James, Reader -- Whitehead, Geoffrey, Reader -- Keen, Will, Reader

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781843793595

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.