As sources of inspiration or simple enjoyment flowers have been responsible over the centuries
for many of our greatest and most memorable works of art works that echo and preserve - in
words and in line and colour - the particular beauties of their subjects. This volume brings
together a personal selection of poetry and prose from a broad range of writers from
Shakespeare and Milton to Reginald Farrer and Edward Augustus Bowles to twentieth-century
poets such as Marianne Moore and Theodore Roethke. Familiar wild and garden flowers are here
explored in all their moods and mysteries.
