Botany As a Hobby 3

Résumé du livre

This book, the third in a series which explores botany wherever it impinges on our lives, describes the relationships between botany and literature. It covers literature in a very broad sense, from scientific writing to flights of fancy touching on plants only marginally. It ranges from writing which refers to plants purely for literary purposes to writing which describes the botany of plants, but in an enjoyable way. The early part of the books is an account of how plants and the communities to which they belong are presented in literature, how plants are used for more literary purposes, how they are used for wider purposes, such as morality, religion and politics and how the uses of plants feature. Later chapters describe how botany is used by selected poets, how plants feature in novels, and how botany itself can be presented as fiction. It is hoped that the book will draw literature lovers to botany and plant lovers to literature.