‘Two paradises ’Twere in one / To Live in paradise alone’
2019; Oxford University Press; Volume: 66; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/notesj/gjy215
ISSN1471-6941
Autores ResumoIn ‘The Garden’, Marvell lists company he loves better than that of women: palm, oak, bay, laurel, reed, apples, grapes, nectarines, peaches, and melons (even if the latter pose a trip hazard). Whenever, he tells the trees, he carves love names on them, ‘No Name shall but your own be found’. He lies on the grass ‘at the Fountains sliding foot, / Or some Fruit-trees mossy root’, and looks up to muse on how like a bird his soul ‘sits, and sings, / Then whets, and combs its silver Wings’. In 1629, John Parkinson published Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A Choise Garden of all Sorts of Rarest Flowers … A Kitchin-garden Furnished with all Manner of Herbers, Roots, and Fruits; a second edition came out in 1656. Parkinson, who died in 1650, was a founding member of the Society of Apothecaries, Charles I’s botanicus regius primarius, and one of the most eminent gardeners of the day, with close relations with botanists, herbalists, and plantsmen such as William Coys, John Gerard, and John Tradescant.
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