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The Gardens of Emily Dickinson.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20050301
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The Gardens of Emily Dickinson. Judith Farr with Louise Carter. Harvard University Press. [pounds sterling]17.95. xvi + 351 pages. ISBN 0-674-01293-3. In this delightful book, Prof. Farr, author of The Passion of Emily Dickinson, and Louise Carter, a landscape gardener, join forces to give readers a new insight into Emily Dickinson and her poetry. They give readers 'a vision of the poet's life in relation to her avocation--in truth, a second vocation--as a gardener'. Prof. Farr looks at the role flowers played in her verse, how they provided her with 'narratives, tropes, and ...

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