EXHIBITION BOOK:
Writing the Garden:
A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Focusing on gardeners' words about the art of gardening,
Writing the Garden by landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow
Rogers brings together a diverse array of authors. For the
most part they are not professional landscape designers or how-to
horticulturists but rather hands-on gardeners who write with
their own gardens in full view. Ranging in time and place from
Enlightenment France to modern-day New York City, they
invite the reader into the natural world of soil and flowers, insects
and sun, pride and frustration.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau,
Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Russell Page, Lynden Miller,
and Michael Pollan are among the fifty writers whose works are
excerpted and discussed by Rogers. An essay by Harriet Shapiro
highlights the New York Society Library's rich collection of historic
and contemporary books by garden writers.
New York Society Library and the Foundation for Landscape
Studies in association with David R. Godine Publisher.
Publication date: Fall 2011
Hardcover, $27.95
Illustrations in full color
5" x 7 3 /4"
ISBN: 9781567924409
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