Gardens : an essay on the human condition / Robert Pogue Harrison.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrison, Robert Pogue
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Gardens > History.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The vocation of care
  • Eve
  • The human gardener
  • Homeless gardens
  • "Mon jardin à moi"
  • Academos
  • The garden school of Epicurus
  • Boccaccio's garden stories
  • Monastic, republican, and princely gardens
  • A note on Versailles
  • On the lost art of seeing
  • Sympathetic miracles
  • The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity
  • Men not destroyers
  • The paradox of the age
  • Epilogue
  • Appendixes. From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
  • From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino
  • "The garden," Andrew Marvell
  • A note on Islamic carpet gardens.