The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674012933 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Gardening, Farr demonstrates, was Dickinson's other vocation, more public than the making of poems but analogous and closely related to it. 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. 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 he
(Carol Stocker Boston Globe 2004-12-02) . This book catches a constant tension in Dickinson's life. Flowers were her messengers. (Madeleine Minson Times Higher Education Supplement 2004-07-16)For the serious Dickinson lover, get The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr, an engrossing and serious biography with deep analysis of the floral themes in the poems. A dandelion demonstrates how 'Winter instantly becomes/An infinite Alas.' I suspect that as she passed among her flowers in Amherst they evaporated into the symbolic ether behind her. An
This is a wonderful addition to that body of reading and observations 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 Nice book, started out more interested in the gardening angle, but then got into Dickinson and her life.Still working at her poems.
. Judith Farr is Professor Emerita of English & American Literature at Georgetown University.Louise Carter is a professional landscape gardener and horticulturalist