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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Farr, Judith. Gardens of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)607069615 |
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| Named Person: | Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Farr; Louise Carter |
| ISBN: | 0674012933 9780674012936 |
| OCLC Number: | 53289756 |
| Description: | xv, 350 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Chapter 1: Gardening in Eden -- Chapter 2: The Woodland garden -- Chapter 3: The enclosed garden -- Chapter 4: The "garden in the Brain" -- Chapter 5: Gardening with Emily Dickinson / Louise Carter. |
| Responsibility: | Judith Farr with Louise Carter. |
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This is a beautiful book on heavy white paper with rich reproductions of Emily Dickinson's favorite flowers, including sheets from the herbarium she kept as a young girl. But which came first, the flowers or the poems? So intertwined are Dickinson's verses with her life in flowers that they seem to be the lens through which she saw the world. In her day (1830-86), many people spoke 'the language of flowers.' Judith Farr shows how closely the poet linked certain flowers with her few and beloved friends: jasmine with editor Samuel Bowles, Crown Imperial with Susan Gilbert, heliotrope with Judge Otis Lord and day lilies with her image of herself. The Belle of Amherst, Mass., spent most of her life on 14 acres behind her father's house on Main Street. Her gardens were full of scented flowers and blossoming trees. She sent notes with nosegays and bouquets to neighbors instead of appearing in the flesh. Flowers were her messengers. Resisting digressions into the world of Dickinson scholarship, Farr stays true to her purpose, even offering a guide to the flowers the poet grew and how to replicate her gardens.--Susan Salter Reynolds"Los Angeles Times" (05/02/2004) Read more...
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