The Language of Flowers: Selected by Jane Holloway by Jane Holloway

The Language of Flowers: Selected by Jane Holloway

Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Jane Holloway

256 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction nature poetry reflective slow-paced
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Floral symbols adorn the earliest poetry, and over the centuries they became increasingly entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, and with herbal folklore. By the early nineteenth century the "Language of Flora" was an elaborately...

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