Deborah Solomon is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Auburn University and specializes in early modern British literature and culture. She has published on manuscript and print culture, Milton’s use of the pastoral mode, and Shakespeare’s garden imagery.

• Introduction: Commonplace Concerns 1. "Glory to Garden, Glory to Muses, Glory to Vertue": The Englishing of Mount Parnassus 2. "A pleasaunt plotte of fragrant floures": Biblio-botanical Metaphors as Paratextual Framing Devices 3. To wander "as it were in a Labyrinthe": Spenser’s Garden Critiques on Reading Poetry 4. Of Patterns "more or lesse busie and curious": The Early Modern Knot Garden as a Poetic Device 5. Epilogue: Trans-media Matters

"It is always easy to overlook what has become conventional to the point of cliche, but in this book Doborah Solomon demonstrates the intense payoff of digging deeply into the questions raised by biblio-botanical cliches. The Poem in the Garden offers an innovative intervention in scholarship on early modern poetics and early print culture, and it aptly demonstrates how early modern poetry and garden mutually informed each other in the development of the Elizabethan aesthetic." Renaissance Quarterly Volume LXXVIII, number 4 Winter 2025