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The Self-Taught Gardener: Lessons from a Country Garden (Viking Books, 1997) [9] A Gardener's Palette: The Ultimate Garden Plant Planner (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998) A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999) Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older (Timber Press, 2010) [10]
The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation and scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos .
The Sunlight on the Garden is a 24-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was entitled Song at its first appearance in print, in The Listener magazine, January 1937. [ 1 ] It was first published in book form as the third poem in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels (1938).
Fields and Gardens poetry (simplified Chinese: 田园诗; traditional Chinese: 田園詩; pinyin: tiányuán shī; Wade–Giles: t'ien-yuan-shih; lit. 'fields and gardens poetry'), in Chinese poetry, is a poetic movement which sparked centuries of poetic enthusiasm, generally considered to effectively date from the Six Dynasties era.
The Garden" is a widely anthologized poem by the seventeenth-century English poet, Andrew Marvell. The poem was first published posthumously in Miscellaneous Poems (1681). [ 1 ] “ The Garden” is one of several poems by Marvell to feature gardens, including his “Nymph Complaining for the Death her Fawn,” “The Mower Against Gardens ...
His garden designs included one for the Viscount Harcourt. He entered the Church in 1754, and in 1762 became the precentor and canon of York Minster. [4] He was the friend, executor, and biographer of Thomas Gray, who was a great influence on his own work. In 1775 The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by ...
This was the century of growing French dominance in large-scale gardening, and the Mollet dynasty of royal gardeners published books with much on garden design. Claude Mollet (d. 1649), did the garden sections in his friend Olivier de Serres ' Le Théâtre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs (Paris 1600), a book mainly dealing with agriculture.
Benjamin Britten published a setting of the poem in 1943, using the tune Hughes collected. [13] In 1988, the American composer John Corigliano wrote and published his setting. [14] Hughes' setting is recorded by individuals and groups including: John McCormack (1941) Peter Pears, with piano accompaniment by Britten (1944) Kathleen Ferrier (1949)