The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
- ISBN-10
- 067401829X
- ISBN-13
- 9780674018297
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-10-31
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Judith Farr, Louise Carter
Description
Explores how Emily Dickinson's devotion to gardening is intertwined with her vocation as a poet, demonstrating that more than a third of her poems allude to her flowers and how her love of gardening shaped her choice of metaphors.
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