The Gardens of Emily Dickinson Paperback - 2005
by Judith Farr; Contribution by Louise Carter
IBeautifully designed with 21 color and 15 halftone illustrations, this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality.
From the rear cover
Cuttings from the book: "The pansy, like the anemone, was a favorite of Emily Dickinson because it came up early, announcing the longed-for spring, and, as a type of bravery, could withstand cold and even an April snow flurry or two in her Amherst garden. In her poem the pansy announces itself boldly, telling her it has been 'resoluter' than the 'Coward Bumble Bee' that loiters by a warm hearth waiting for May." "She spoke of the written word as a flower, telling Emily Fowler Ford, for example, 'thank you for writing me, one precious little "forget-me-not" to bloom along my way.' She often spoke of a flower when she meant herself: 'You failed to keep your appointment with the apple-blossoms, ' she reproached her friend Maria Whitney in June 1883, meaning that Maria had not visited her . . . Sometimes she marked the day or season by alluding to flowers that had or had not bloomed: 'I said I should send some flowers this week . . . [but] my Vale Lily asked me to wait for her.'" "People were also associated with flowers . . . Thus, her loyal, brisk, homemaking sister Lavinia is mentioned in Dickinson's letters in concert with sweet apple blossoms and sturdy chrysanthemums . . . Emily's vivid, ambitious sister-in-law Susan Dickinson is mentioned in the company of cardinal flowers and of that grand member of the fritillaria family, the Crown Imperial."
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- Title The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
- Author Judith Farr; Contribution by Louise Carter
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Date 10/31/2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780674018297 / 067401829X
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 5.76 x 0.68 in (20.88 x 14.63 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.4
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