THE LANDSCAPE GARDEN

by Edgar Allan Poe

(1850)

        The garden like a lady fair was cut
          That lay as if she slumbered in delight,
        And to the open skies her eyes did shut;
          The azure fields of heaven were 'sembled right
        In a large round set with flow'rs of light:
          The flowers de luce and the round sparks of dew
        That hung upon their azure leaves, did show
          Like twinkling stars that sparkle in the ev'ning blue.
                                                    GILES FLETCHER

Exploring with Hypertext:

This book links between relevant, symbolic or related text recursively. Links draw your attention back to a previous detail after more information has been revealed, to revisit a misunderstood context, or examine more thoroughly a symbolic connection.

I have specifically highlighted the juxtaposition between poet and economy, man made artifice and natural beauty, and allusions to poetic texts. The rationality behind a the hyperlinking is not explained in a footnote or otherwise. The semiotics of the hypertext is meant as an emphasis rather an explanation.

It is possible and encouraged to leave comments within the text. If you have noticed a cross-connection of note, add a note.

Some possible chiasmas not yet conneceted:

  • Numerological Symbolism -- Why mention so many specific numbers? Is the specific rate of capital income through interest important, if not symbolically? Why include it?
  • Specific authors, specific works. Is shunning ambition related to Shelly's Ozymandias? "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert." Contrast to "stony ideology" for example. Else is use of "stony" not a bit out of place?
  • Byron, Shelly, Keats, Milton, Dante, but not Coleridge or Woodsworth. Why? Feels like parts of Kubla Kahn are here, but maybe not?

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