{"id":368,"date":"2021-04-21T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/?page_id=368"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T18:55:27","slug":"plant-database","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/plant-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With our plant directory, we aim to collate as many references to plants in literature as we can. Think of it as a digital herbarium or botanical journal, only all our plant ‘sightings’ take place within the habitat of the printed page. If you’re curious about what kind of plants tended to feature in various eras of English literature, you can navigate the tree below to find out. If you were wondering, for instance, what plants captured the imagination of Elizabethan dramatists and what they had to say about them, you could click the ‘Early Modern’ branch under ‘Drama’ to see every plant we have on record for that era. At present our records are mostly empty, so we welcome contributions from anyone who has an idea for an entry (if that proposed entry corresponds to a literary era not listed below, the tree can be modified to account for it). Please e-mail me at <\/a>sb2357@cam.ac.uk<\/a> to contribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vittoria\u2019s Yew \u2013 The White Devil (1612)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alexander Pope\u2019s Willow \u2013 J.M.W Turner\u2019s \u2018On the Demolition of Pope\u2019s House at Twickenham\u2019 (1808)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Cheerless, Unsocial Yew \u2013 Robert Blair\u2019s \u2018The Grave\u2019 (1743)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Owl-Hollowed Willows \u2013 Sylvia Plath\u2019s \u2018Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows\u2019 (1959)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Yew-Tree\u2019s Shade \u2013 Thomas Gray\u2019s \u2018Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard\u2019 (1751)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pollard Willows \u2013 Thomas Hardy\u2019s \u2018Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles\u2019 (1891)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tristan & Iseult’s Hazel & Honeysuckle – Marie De France’s ‘Chevrefoil’ (12th Century)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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With our plant directory, we aim to collate as many references to plants in literature as we can. Think of it as a digital herbarium or botanical journal, only all our plant ‘sightings’ take place within the habitat of the printed page. If you’re curious about what kind of plants tended to feature in various eras of English literature, you can navigate the tree below to find out. If you were wondering, for instance, what plants captured the imagination of Elizabethan dramatists and what they had to say about them, you could click the ‘Early Modern’ branch under ‘Drama’ to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}