{"product_id":"versed-in-living-nature-by-peter-dale-9781789146448","title":"Versed in Living Nature","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerdant with illustrations, a meditation upon the rootedness of trees in Wordsworth's writing and beyond.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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 that tell us about both longevity and the brevity of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLinking poetry and literary history with ecology, \u003cem\u003eVersed in Living Nature\u003c\/em\u003e explores intricate patterns of personal and local connections that enabled trees - as living things, cultural topics, horticultural objects and even commodities - to be imagined, theorised, discussed and exchanged. In this book, the literary past becomes the urgent present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384197497068,"sku":"9781789146448","price":76.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27993523482824.jpg?v=1773402329","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/versed-in-living-nature-by-peter-dale-9781789146448","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}