Bright Ellipses: The Botanic Garden, Meteoric Flowers, and Leaves of Grass

Book chapter

Elizabeth Willis

Active Romanticism: The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice, p.18

U of Alabama P

2015

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American Literature

Botany

Poetry

1700-1799

1800-1899

1900-1999

Darwin, Erasmus

English literature

gender

Leaves of Grass

Meteoric Flowers

plants

poetic form

Romantic period

scientific knowledge

sexual politics

The Botanic Garden

The Loves of the Plants

Whitman, Walt

Willis, Elizabeth

Title: Subtitle: Bright Ellipses: The Botanic Garden, Meteoric Flowers, and Leaves of Grass
Creators: Elizabeth Willis
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Active Romanticism: The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice, p.18
Publisher: U of Alabama P
Language: English
Date published: 2015
Academic Unit: Creative Writing
Record Identifier: 9984399607202771

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