victorian language of flowers Archives - The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/tag/victorian-language-of-flowers/ Literary Arts Journal Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:46:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 victorian language of flowers Archives - The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/tag/victorian-language-of-flowers/ 32 32 199531397 The Rose-Colored Closet: Beauty & Symbolism in Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose https://hyacinthreview.org/terri-pinyerd-the-rose-colored-closet-beauty-symbolism-in-oscar-wildes-the-nightingale-and-the-rose/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=terri-pinyerd-the-rose-colored-closet-beauty-symbolism-in-oscar-wildes-the-nightingale-and-the-rose Sat, 06 Jan 2024 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=6550 Within many of his works, Oscar Wilde insisted upon the importance and relevance of beauty and the aesthetic in the everyday. The Picture of Dorian Gray, for example, opens with a brief reflection on the art and the artist and follows with the infamous phrase “All art is quite useless” – a reflection on the…

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]]> 6550 Grim Fact Flowers https://hyacinthreview.org/chris-bullard-grim-fact-flowers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chris-bullard-grim-fact-flowers Mon, 28 Mar 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=2144 “When you have a grim fact you put a flower against it and for some reason you don’t feel so bad anymore.” – Andrei Codrescu To the Victorians the white lily signified youthful innocence. 110 million Americans breath such high levels of air pollution that the federal government considers it to be harmful to their…

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