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The Pleasures Of The Garden: An Anthology

Compiled and introduced by Christina Hardyment

Read by Anton Lesser, Frances Jeater, Sean Barrett and David Timso

This delightful anthology of prose and poetry, mostly homegrown but with contributions from Pliny on the magnificence of the box hedges cut into a thousand animal shapes in his Tuscan garden... — The Guardian More…
  • Release Date: 1st Mar 2010
  • Catalogue No: NA435912
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

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Christina Hardyment: The Pleasures of the Garden

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  • Recording Venue: Hats Off Studios, Oxford and Motivation Sound Studios, London

Introduction, read by Christina Hardyment

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Part 1: Lovers of Gardens and Lovers in Gardens: John Gerard in The Herbalist, 1597

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Homeward by Tao Yuan Ming

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Bright Green and Lush

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Purest of Human Pleasures by Sir Francis Bacon

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A Brood of Nightingales by The Reverend William Lawson

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Innocent Delights by Joseph Addison

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Syringa Ivory Pure by William Cowper

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We talk also of a Laburnum by Jane Austen

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The Pride of My Heart by Mary Russell Mitford

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How Little One Wants by Gertrude Jekyll

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Enjoy Thyself a Day

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A Garden Enclosed from Song of Solomon

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The Lusty Month of May by Sir Thomas Malory

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A Garden Fair by Music's Tower by Stephen Hawes

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Make Me a Mandrake by John Donne

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No Nook More Eden-like by Charlotte Bronte

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The Planet of Love Is on High by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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The Cap and Bells by William Butler Yeats

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Part 2: Grand Designs: An Abundance of Brimstone by Diodorus Siculus

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The Blue Fig with Luscious Juice O'erflows by Homer

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All Is Calm and Composed by Pliny the Younger

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The Pleasant Whisking Wind by Robert Laneham

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A Prince-like Garden by Sir Francis Bacon

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The Genius of the Place by Alexander Pope

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A Labyrinth of My Own Raising by Joseph Addison

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The Horticultural Xenophobe by Tobias Smollett

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In the Hands of the Improvers by Jane Austen

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The Simplest Way by William Morris

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No Plan of Any Kind by William Robinson

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Tears of Ecstasy by Reginald Farrer

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A Garden of Sweet Scents by Gertrude Jekyll

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Part 3: Practical Gardening: Whatever Had the Most Blooms by Bai Juyi

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A Full Dung Barrow by Walafrid Strabo

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Nosegays and Posies by John Gerard

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Bring Your Orange Trees Boldly Out by John Evelyn

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Vegetable Pride by Erasmus Darwin

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The Auspicious Moment by William Cowper

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Snapdragons Blooming by Thomas Jefferson

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A Bachelor of Husbandry by Philip Yorke

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Well Stricken in Years by Robert Louis Stevenson

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They Gardened in Bloomers, Punch, 1896

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A Cast-Iron Back with a Hinge in It by Charles Dudley Warner

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Being Entirely Ignorant by Elizabeth Arnim

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The Unkindest Cut by Samuel Reynolds Hole

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Grubbing Weeds from Gravel-paths with Broken Dinner-knives by Rudyard Kipling

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The Actual Tools by Gertrude Jekyll

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The Smoke's Smell by Edward Thomas

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Part 4: Solace for Body and Soul: The Belly of the Dragon from the Sakutei-ki

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Invisible Wisdom by John Gerard

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A Pleasing Savour of Sweet Instructions by John Parkinson

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Killing and Quickening by George Herbert

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Fresh and Spruce by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester

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A Green Thought in a Green Shade by Andrew Marvell

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Slow but Sure by John Bunyan

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Human Grandeur Is Very Dangerous by Voltaire

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Prostrate Peas by Henry Jones

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Good Taste and Not a Gaudy Pride by John Clare

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Paying Back the Garden by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Roses and Lovers by Algernon Swinburne

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Persevere! by Helena Rutherford Ely

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It Isn't a Quite Dead Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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A Nation of Gardeners by Avray Tipping

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Even God Would Have to Have a Nose by D.H. Lawrence

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Egoistic Reverie by William Cowper, Edmund Gosse and Forbes Sieveking

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Ferned Grot by T.E. Brown

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