Versed in Living Nature : Wordsworth's Trees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dale, Peter.

Contributor:

Yen, Brandon C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trees in literature.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, Limited, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

1. Between the Royal Oak and the Liberty Tree

2. An Ash Tree in Cambridge

3. Yews and the Earth

4. Ways of Seeing

5. Gardens and Parklands

6. Peregrinations

7. Scotland, 1803

8. Burns Taking Root in Cumbria

9. A Voyage to Ireland

Epilogue

References

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Dale, Peter Versed in Living Nature

ISBN:

9781789146431

1789146437

OCLC:

1345592870