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These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre created for Louis XIV, they also explore the garden as metaphor. Using the imagery of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swensen, Cole, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: CA : University of California Press, 2008.
Colección:New California poetry.
Temas:
Le Nôtre, André, > 1613-1700 > Poetry.
Le Nôtre, André, > 1613-1700
Gardens > Poetry.
Gardens, French > Poetry.
Jardins > Poésie.
Jardins français > Poésie.
POETRY > American > General.
POETRY > Anthologies (multiple authors)
Gardens
Gardens, French
17th century french baroque gardens.
17th century french culture.
21st century american literature.
21st century american poetry.
american literature.
american poetry.
andre le norte.
aristocracy.
beauty.
collective ownership.
discussion books.
engaging.
flora and fauna.
flowers.
formal structure of poetry.
gardens.
human society.
imagery.
le norte.
louis xiv.
new california poetry series.
nobility.
page turner.
poems.
poetry.
property.
public parks.
public vs private.
royalty.
versailles.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; HISTORY; A Garden Is a Start; Paradise; Leaving the Middle Ages; The Birth of Landscape Architecture; The Garden as Architecture Itself; The Garden as Word Game; The Garden as Extension; Sir Mine; Gardens Belong; PRINCIPLES; In an Effort to Make the Garden a Standing Proof; Certain Principles Must Be Observed; A Garden Occurs in Four Stages; A Garden as a Letter; A Garden as Between; A Garden as a Unit of Measure; Anamorphosis; Euclid's Eighth Theorem; Because a Garden Must End; VAUX-LE-VICOMTE; If a Garden of Numbers.
  • Further Notes on the Collusion of Time and SpaceWorking Conditions; Charles Le Brun (1619
  • 1690); Water; Labyrinths and Mazes; OTHER GARDENS; Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Chantilly; Saint-Cloud; Meudon; THE MEDICIS; Catherine (1519
  • 1589); Marie (1573-1642); The Luxembourg Gardens; VERSAILLES; Versailles the Unfurled; The Divinity of the Sun King; The Garden as a Map of Louis XIV; Le Nôtre's Drawings; And the Birds, Too; The Reign of Louis XIV; The Ghost of Much Later; STATUARY; ORANGERIES; "YOU ARE A HAPPY MAN, LE NÔTRE"; On Happiness; Psychic Botany; The Gardened Heart; Tuileries, January 2007.

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