What’s so exciting about all of these poems is that by reading them we can come into contact with history. Since they are all about Linnaeus in some way, we can compare what they contain and thereby travel through hundreds of years.

What is found in a poem depends, of course, on who wrote it. But because authors address those living in their own time, we can pick up a great deal about what life was like at that time: what people thought was good, how it was felt that people should live, what people were interested in and noticed in general.