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Bartholomew the Englishman was a 13th century Franciscan friar and scholar whose only surviving work, De proprietatibus rerum (The Properties of Things), was intended as an encyclopaedia of the world. The Herb Garden is an imaginary representation of what his herbarium might have looked like. The dialect of the collection is a mix of middle and modern English, a verbal florilegium meant to explore the exuberant richness of the English language that much of contemporary poetry has scanted or forgotten. The collection is also conceived as a kind of "sapiential book," a form of counsel literature or life manual with an emphasis on everyday practice and the poet's craft.

The Herb Garden

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Bartholomew the Englishman was a 13th century Franciscan friar and scholar whose only surviving work, De proprietatibus rerum (The Properties... Read more

    Publisher: Guernica Editions,Canada
    Publication Date: 01/04/2018
    ISBN13: 9781771832755, 978-1771832755
    ISBN10: 1771832754

    Number of Pages: 65

    Fiction , Poetry

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    Bartholomew the Englishman was a 13th century Franciscan friar and scholar whose only surviving work, De proprietatibus rerum (The Properties of Things), was intended as an encyclopaedia of the world. The Herb Garden is an imaginary representation of what his herbarium might have looked like. The dialect of the collection is a mix of middle and modern English, a verbal florilegium meant to explore the exuberant richness of the English language that much of contemporary poetry has scanted or forgotten. The collection is also conceived as a kind of "sapiential book," a form of counsel literature or life manual with an emphasis on everyday practice and the poet's craft.

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