{"product_id":"157242002_product","title":"Various - Language of Flowers : Selected by Jane Holloway - Hardback","description":"Pages Count - 256. Binding type - Hardcover. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout this Item\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe item is a book Hardback\u003cbr\u003eThe Author Name is Various\u003cbr\u003eThe Title is The Language of Flowers : Selected by Jane Holloway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition New\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther Comments\u003cbr\u003ePages Count - 256. Binding type - Hardcover. \u003cbr\u003eContent Language - English                       \r\u003cbr\u003eCategory - POETRY \/ Anthologies (multiple authors)\u003cbr\u003eNATURE \/ Plants \/ Flowers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduct Description -\u003cbr\u003eThe language of flowers is as old as language itself. In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple emotions, ideas, or states of mind: love, hope, despair, fidelity, solitude, beauty, mortality. Over time these associations entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, folk and herbal lore.\r\n\r\n By the early 19th century the 'Language of Flora' had become increasingly refined, especially in England and America, where sentimental flower books listing flower meanings and illustrating them with verse were perennial bestsellers.       The Everyman Language of Flowers without sacrificing the charm of its Victorian predecessors aims to provide extended, updated and rather more robust floral anthology for the 21st century, presenting poetry from ancient Greece to contemporary Britain and America, and spanning the world from Cuba to Korea, Russia to Zimbabwe.       Here are Rumi and Rilke on the rose  Herrick and Louise Gluck on the lily  Chaucer, Emily Dickinson and Jon Silkin on the daisy  Mary Robinson and Ted Hughes on the snowdrop  Lorenzo de Medici, John Clare and Alice Oswald on the violet  Hugo and Roethke on carnations  Ovid and Goethe on poppies  Blake and Eugenio Montale on the sunflower  Christina Rossetti on heartsease and forget-me-nots  Emily Bronte on harebells and heather, Seamus Heaney on lupins, Pasternak on night-scented stock...\r\n\r\n         Eastern cultures, rich in flower associations, are well represented: there are Tang poems celebrating chrysanthemums and peonies, Zen poems about orchids and lotus flowers, poems about jasmine and marigolds from India, roses, tulips and narcissi from Persia, the Ottoman empire and the Arabic world.     Flowers are arranged by season, with roses and lilies in a section of their own. In a final section poets comment directly or indirectly on the language of flowers itself.\r\n\r\n The book concludes with a selected glossary drawn from several celebrated Victorian collections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont color=\"red\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe Use Stock Images\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nBecause we have over 6 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. 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