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The Gardens of Emily Dickinson

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Description for The Gardens of Emily Dickinson Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 color illustrations, 12 tritone illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; WM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 510.

In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Judith Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the successful gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience: love and hate, wickedness and virtue, death and immortality.

Gardening, Farr demonstrates, was Dickinson's other vocation, more public than the making of poems but analogous and closely related to it. Over a third of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674018297
SKU
V9780674018297
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Judith Farr
Judith Farr is Professor Emerita of English & American Literature at Georgetown University. Louise Carter is a professional landscape gardener and horticulturalist.

Reviews for The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
In this first major study of our beloved poet Dickinson's devotion to gardening, Farr shows us that like poetry, gardening was her daily passion, her spiritual sustenance, and her literary inspiration...Rather than speaking generally about Dickinson's gardening habits, as other articles on the subject have done, Farr immerses the reader in a stimulating and detailed discussion of the flowers Dickinson ... Read more

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