Garden Poems, Selected And Edited By John Hollander

Everyman's Library Pocket PoetsHardcoverGardens and poems are both products of the universal human need to retrieve a serene imaginative order from the chaos of experience, so it is only natural that poets of every culture have found in gardens metaphors and locales for their work.The splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them succeeds in "annihilating all that's made," as Andrew Marvell puts it in one of the most famous of all English poems, "to a green thought in a green shade."Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde and Carol Devine CarsonFront-of-jacket image: Engraving by R. Earlom, after a painting by Philip Reinagle, that appears in The Temple of Flora (London 1799—1807) by Robert Thornton. Courtesy of W. Graham Arader III Gallery, New YorkBack-of-jacket photograph: Orchidaceae by Karl Blossfeldt 2000 Karl Blossfeldt Archiv/Ann und Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Language: EnglishThis book is in stock in our warehouse in the Netherlands and available quickly / Dit boek is op voorraad in ons magazijn in Nederland en snel beschikbaar.Garden Poems, selected and edited by John Hollander, very nice copyAlfred A. Knopf, New York, harcover with dust jacket, 16,5 x 11,1 x 1,8 cm, 256 pagesISBN 9780679447269Price without shipping costs