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Book 2024ecological and agronomic values that are still attributed to bees by modern industrial society were first established, and it was the period in which one bee species (the European honeybee) completed its dispersal to every habitable continent on Earth. At the same time, literature – which would enab

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Symbiosis or Slaughterhouse? Honeyed Analogy in Erasmus Darwin,o the more traditional view that the relationship between bees and flowers was predatory rather than symbiotic. Paradoxically, however, it was the close kinship of animal and vegetable that put them in competition for the precious resource, honey. The very fact that all life could trace its origin t

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The Social Insect and the Fashionable Newspaper: Reading Bee Poems in the , and the ,f the eighteenth century. In particular, the popularity of the pseudonymous Della Cruscan school of poetry, nurtured in the pages of the . and featuring the serialized romance of “Della Crusca” (Robert Merry) and “Anna Matilda” (Hannah Cowley), began a fad for similarly sociable, playful and erotic

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,John Keats’s Honeybees: Sound, Passion, Medicine, and Natural Prophecy,ises of other organic life is nevertheless a vital part, he said, of a breathing, active universe and “The poetry of [an] earth [that] is never dead.” For Keats, who was a licensed apothecary and trained physician, the existence of bees is fraught with meaning and prophecy for the natural world and