Versed in Living Nature: Wordsworth's Trees

by Peter Dale and Brandon C. Yen

Verdant with illustrations, a meditation upon the rootedness of trees in Wordsworth's writing and beyond.

This is the first book to address William Wordsworth's profound identification of the spirit of nature in trees. It looks at what trees meant to him, and how he represented them in his poetry and prose: the symbolic charm of blasted trees, a hawthorn at the heart of Irish folk belief, great oaks that embodied naval strength, yews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789146445
• ISBN13: 9781789146448
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.5"