The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674012933 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times 2004-05-02)If you want poetry and gardening of equal merit, turn to Emily Dickinson, whose gardens--poetic and herbaceous--are the subject of an attractive new book, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson, by Judith Farr. She was a passionate gardener, 'able to envision every season and flower at will,' Farr writes, her gardening, like her poetry, 'the manifestation of profound and even occasionally rebellious desire.'For bringing us so close to Emily Dickinson--one can almost hear her breathing--The Gardens of Emily Dickinson deserves wide readership. But which came first, the flowers or the poems
Judith Farr is Professor Emerita of English & American Literature at Georgetown University.Louise Carter is a professional landscape gardener and horticulturalist.
"This is a wonderful addition to that body of reading and observations" according to Mary DeYoung. Our book reading club has spent many hours with Emily's poems and biographies. This is a wonderful addition to that body of reading and observations, especially for the gardeners in the group.. hobbyist said A Wonderful Description of Dickinson's Life and Passions. Beautiful photos and very interesting insights. So glad the restoration is taking place.. Nice book, started out more interested in the gardening marco Nice book, started out more interested in the gardening angle, but then got into Dickinson and her life.Still working at her poems.
Carter hypothesizes Dickinson's methods of gardening, explaining how one might grow her flowers today. A chapter, "Gardening with Emily Dickinson" by Louise Carter, cites family letters and memoirs to conjecture the kinds of flowers contained in the poet's indoor and outdoor gardens. Beautifully illustrated and written with verve, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson will provide pleasure and insight to a wide audience of scholars, admirers of Dickinson's poetry, and garden lovers everywhere.. Gardening, Farr demonstrates, was Dickinson's other vocation, more public than the making of poems but analogous and closely related to it. Each flower was assigned specific connotations by the nineteenth century floral dictionaries she knew; thus, Dickinson's association of various flowers with friends, family, and lovers, like the tropes and scenarios presented in her poems, establishes her participation in the literary and painterly culture of her day. 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