This is the Garden: An Anthology
Author(s): Charles Elliott Jr. (Intro and Notes by); Charles Elliott (Editor)
Gardens are used as settings, they are contemplated and described, they are engaged with metaphorically, and they are employed as emotional registers by authors as various as Goethe and Jerome K Jerome, Somerset Maugham and James I; to say nothing of Charlotte Bronte or ee cumming. And in this anthology the legendary editor and garden writer Charles Elliott has chosen a nicely suggestive collection of such encounters from all over the world and all ages to delight, to entertain and to inform.
Happy and sad, comic and serious, reassuring and threatening, the garden is seen here by over 100 great writers as one of mankind's most interesting, most useful and most variable creations.
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Charles Elliott is an editor and writer who lives in London and gardens in Monmouth near the Welsh border. He is a regular contributor to Horticulture magazine, and has been a magazine editor and senior editor for Alfred A. Knopf in New York. He has written several books, including The Potting Shed Papers and More Papers from the Potting Shed. He lives in Monmouthshire and West London.
Introduction Romance Garden Making Enthusiasm Far Away Scepticism Styles Sinister Intensities Lost Gardens A Who's Who of Writers Quoted
General Fields
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- : Quarto Publishing Group UK
- : White Lion Publishing
- : 0.396893
- : 01 April 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 21mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Charles Elliott Jr. (Intro and Notes by); Charles Elliott (Editor)
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 808.80364
- : 240
- : illustrations