William Robinson: The Wild Gardener - Rilegato

Bisgrove, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0711225427 ISBN 13: 9780711225428

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln, 2008

Riassunto

William Robinson (1838-1935) began his horticultural career as a garden boy in Ireland and ended it as the owner of over a thousand acres in Sussex.
Robinson is best known for his fervent endorsement of wild gardening, including the naturalising of bulbs (The Wild Garden was published in 1870), and for his all-encompassing English Flower Garden (fifteen editions from 1883 to 1933), His discovery of Alfred Parsons as the ideal artist to illustrate his ideas helped to foster a new era of the plantsman's picturesque and thus to launch the ideal of the English cottage garden, apparent in such gardens as Hidcote Manor and Sissinghurst, which has resonated around the world ever since.
Curiously; despite his enormous literary output and his position at the centre of an international circle of distinguished horticulturists, William Robinson remains a surprisingly enigmatic figure. He was generous to friends and retainers but ferocious in his attacks on opponents, a populariser rather than a pioneer, but undoubtedly one of the greatest figures in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century gardening.

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Beautifully illustrated with photographs and contemporary drawings, William Robinson: The Wild Gardener is more than just a pretty coffee-table book - it is illuminating, well-researched and certainly not a hagiography. --House and Garden

The richness of the illustration and the beauty of the design make this a joy to look at. This valuable piece of garden history sets Robinson and his achievements pithily in context. But it is also the tribute of one fine writer to another: by quoting Robinson so extensively, and with such enjoyment, Bisgrove introduces a new generation to his roaring prose. A distant historical figure lives again in all his cussedness and passion. --BBC Gardens Illustrated

Less well known than his contemporary and journalistic collaborator, Gerturude Jekyll. It is hard to see why this is so, and Bisgrove does not pretend to have the complete answer. If you read this book, which is a considered dissection of Robinson's voluminous writings as much as a biography, it does seem almost perverse. Let us hope that this well-researched and exhaustive study will help redress the balance. --Daily Telegraph

L'autore:

Richard Bisgrove is course directory for Landscape Management at the University of Reading.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Frances Lincoln
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0711225427
• ISBN 13: 9780711225428
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256