The poet as botanist / M.M. Mahood.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

xi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Primroses at Dove Cottage and Down House -- Erasmus Darwin's feeling for the organism -- Crabbe's slimy mallows and suffocated clover -- John Clare : bard of the wild flowers -- Ruskin's flowers of evil -- D. H. Lawrence, botanist -- Poetry and photosynthesis.