The Economy of Vegetation

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The Economy of Vegetation is the first part of Erasmus Darwin’s didactic poem *The Botanic Garden*, presenting scientific and botanical ideas through elaborate, personified verse.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf didactic poem
literary work
poem
alternateTitle The Economy of Vegetation
surface form: The Botanic Garden, Part I: The Economy of Vegetation
author Erasmus Darwin
countryOfOrigin Great Britain
describes cosmology
geology
industrial processes
meteorology
steam power
firstPublicationDate 1791
genre botanical poetry
didactic poetry
scientific poetry
hasIllustrationBy Henry Fuseli
surface form: Fuseli

William Blake
hasNoteBy Erasmus Darwin
hasPart philosophical notes
scientific notes
influencedBy Enlightenment science
Linnaean botany
intendedAudience educated lay readers
scientific readers
language English
literaryForm verse
literaryPeriod Georgian era
movement Enlightenment literature
pre-Romanticism
partOf The Botanic Garden
period 18th century
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publisher J. Johnson
relatedWork The Loves of the Plants
style heroic couplets
subject botany
industrial inventions
natural philosophy
science
technology
theme industrial and technological innovation
interrelation of art and science
power of nature
progress of science
uses allegory
personification

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The Economy of Vegetation alternateTitle The Economy of Vegetation
this entity surface form: The Botanic Garden, Part I: The Economy of Vegetation
The Botanic Garden contains The Economy of Vegetation
The Loves of the Plants relatedWork The Economy of Vegetation