1st Edition
The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England Rival Media in the Process of Poetic Invention
Introduction: Commonplace Concerns 1. "Glory to Garden, Glory to Muses, Glory to Vertue": The Englishing of Mount Parnassus 2. "A pleasaunt plotte of fragrant floures": Biblio-botanical Metaphors as Paratextual Framing Devices 3. To wander "as it were in a Labyrinthe": Spenser’s Garden Critiques on Reading Poetry 4. Of Patterns "more or lesse busie and curious": The Early Modern Knot Garden as a Poetic Device 5. Epilogue: Trans-media Matters
Biography
Deborah Solomon is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Auburn University and specializes in early modern British literature and culture. She has published on manuscript and print culture, Milton’s use of the pastoral mode, and Shakespeare’s garden imagery.
