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The poet as painstaking gardener; Emily Dickinson's lifelong passion for flowers.(BOOKS)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 20040523
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Byline: Claire Hopley, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
No reader of Emily Dickinson's poems can miss her constant and loving references to flowers. Sometimes she simply glorified their beauty, but closer reading shows that she also associated them with her own spiritual or emotional state, often linking the writing of poetry and the cultivation of flowers as related gifts of her muse.
It therefore comes as no surprise that while Dickinson adored wildflowers, she was also a painstaking gardener, laboring lovingly in both the outdoor flowerbeds on her father's 14-acre ...
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