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Author | : Frederick Jones |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1472519841 |
Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between inside and outside are deliberately porous. The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and Virgil himself is free to enter their world. Virgil's bucolic space is, in many ways, a poetic replication of the public and private gardens of his Roman audience - enclosed green spaces which afforded the citizen sheltered social and cultural activities, temporary respite from the turbulence of public life, and a tamed landscape in which to play out the tensions between the simple ideal and the complexities of reality. This book examines the Eclogues in terms of the relationship between its contents and its cultural context, making connections between the Eclogues and the representational modes of Roman art, Roman concepts of space and landscape, and Roman gardens.
Author | : Patrick Bizzaro |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1997-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807122020 |
Dream Garden provides the first inclusive appreciation and evaluation of the poetry of one of the South's, indeed America's, premier writers, Fred Chappell. The selections range from a poignant prologue by George Garrett to appreciations by R.T. Smith and R.H. W. Dillard; from critical pieces by Henry Taylor and Dabney Stuart, among others, to a description of the Chappell papers at Duke University by Alex Albright. In addition, Dream Garden includes a recent interview with Chappell by Resa Crane and James W. Kirkland. Dream Garden is essential reading for those interested in the writing of Fred Chappell, one of the finest voices in the South.
Author | : John Dixon Hunt |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0812292782 |
Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems. With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models.
Author | : Henry Peacham |
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Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1577 |
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Author | : Henry PEACHAM (the Elder.) |
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Total Pages | : 222 |
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Author | : Patrick Cheney |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2011-05-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405169540 |
Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare’s major poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler
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Author | : Heartsease (Writer) |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1887 |
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Author | : Michael Pollan |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2002-05-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0375760393 |
“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?