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Tennyson's Garden of Art: A Study of the Hesperides

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1952
One of the chief reasons the great Victorian poets are not read with the attention they deserve is that the modern reader is often baffled by the idiom of their more successful poems. We do not know just how to take them, and we find it difficult to do justice to the richness of their language. The case of Tennyson has been particularly unfortunate. In
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Botanists and Antiquaries in the Garden of the Hesperides

Parergon
Abstract: The first recorded instance of the extinction of a plant species through human intervention is that of the Libyan silphium, the last stalk of which was believed to have been presented to the emperor Nero in the first century ce. It took the concerted work of antiquaries and botanists to unravel just what had happened.
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The garden of the Hesperides

Notes and Queries, 1893
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Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides: A Geographical Myth in the Creation Tapestry?

2017
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