} .poem-day article.post .entry-header h1.entry-title { body.category article.post .entry-header .entry-thumbnail { background: #eee; -webkit-border-radius: 0.25em; border-right: 1px solid #eee; .rt-tpg-container .layout1 .rt-detail .post-meta .read-more a:hover { .bee { She showed aptitude in other key subjects at the academy such as botany. padding: 10px 20px; } .ec_details_mobile_title_area{ display:block; } header .main-navigation ul li a { .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f .sow-social-media-button-instagram-0.ow-button-hover:hover { https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/23/emily-dickinson-herbarium/ font-style: italic; } .special-notice { info@EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org,  http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4184689?n=1&res=3&imagesize=1200, Domestic Labor in the Dickinson Family Households, Emily Dickinsonâs Schooling: Amherst Academy, Emily Dickinsonâs Schooling: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Copyright Questions and Dickinsonâs Work, The Posthumous Discovery of Dickinson’s Poems, Major Characteristics of Dickinson’s Poetry. background: #3d641f; .metaslider .flex-control-nav { text-decoration: none; /* CLASSES THAT CAN BE ADDED AS NEEDED */ .ec_category_li{ width:33.333333333333%; } } text-decoration: none; border: 0 !important; margin-right: 16px; } } color: white !important; color: #ffffff !important; .ctl-bullets-container { .ec_cart_left{ width:100%; padding-right:0px; border-right:0px; } width: 1em; } } color: #a02121; .ec_product_type3 .ec_product_addtocart:hover{ background-color:#222222; } clear: both; padding-left: 18px; } #search-icon .searchform { .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f .sow-social-media-button-instagram-0:hover { } border-top: 1px solid #eee; header .textwidget p { font-size: 1.4em; float: left; During her school years she assembled an extensive herbarium (a book of pressed plants) that included more than 400 specimens, each labeled by the poet with its Latin name. header .textwidget a#header-button-donate:hover { border: 1px solid #ccc; } } .ec_cart_left{ width:100%; padding-right:0px; border-right:0px; } } .so-widget-sow-button-flat-9bbf01a2622a .ow-button-base a.ow-button-hover:hover { } .ec_product_quickview_content_quantity input[type="submit"]:hover, .ec_product_quickview_content_quantity input[type="button"]:hover, .ec_product_quickview_content_add_to_cart a:hover{ background-color:#666666 !important; } } color: #a02121 !important; height: auto; height: 70vh; } clear: both; border-right: 1px solid #ccc; background-image: none !important; font-size: 20px; #ec_cart_payment_one_column{ display:block; } padding: 1em 2em; } Complement Farr’s thoroughly wonderful The Gardens of Emily Dickinson with Cynthia Nixon’s beautiful reading of Dickinson’s âWhile I was fearing it, it came,â then revisit botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer on gardening and the secret of happiness. .ec_product_details_page a:hover{ color:#666666; } .ec_product_type3 .ec_product_quickview > input:hover{ background:#222222; background-color:#222222; } display:inline-block; font-weight: 400; } } padding: 0.5em 0; Another New Englander, the poet Emily Dickinson, was a student of botany at the Amherst Academy in her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. } .so-widget-sow-button-flat-9bbf01a2622a .ow-button-base a:hover { .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f a .sow-icon-image { text-align: center; The herbarium, now in the collection of the Houghton Library at Harvard University, demonstrates Dickinson’s intimate familiarity with her natural surroundings. .ec_product_added_to_cart { She sent both to friends and acquaintances to acknowledge birthdays, comfort in time of illness, or express condolences: “Intrusiveness of flowers is brooked even by troubled hearts. background: #850101; /* Suppress featured images on posts */ .ec_product_type6 .ec_product_meta_type6 .ec_price_container{ background-color:#222222; } .rt-tpg-container .layout1 .rt-holder .rt-detail .read-more { border-radius: 4px; 280 Main Street, Amherst MA 01002 padding: .75rem; were left to rival them in pungency” (Bianchi, p. 2). bottom: 0; .ec_details_magbox{ display:none !important } } background-color: #650400; } font-size: 16px; } .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-cbb7eda324c0 .sow-social-media-button-instagram-0.ow-button-hover:hover { background-size: cover; max-width: 60px; } .ec_account_order_item_buy_button:hover, .ec_account_order_item_download_button:hover{ background-color:#666666; } font: 400 30px FontAwesome; } .ec_details_customer_reviews_left > h3{ color:#222222 !important; } padding: 0 10px; display: flex; Need to cancel a recurring donation? 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Grant Wacker (www.gradesaver.com) writes In 1841 Dickinson entered Amherst Academy where she studied French, Latin, history, geology, botany… } margin: 20px 20px 30px; .ec_cart_left{ width:100%; padding-right:0px; border-right:0px; } .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-cbb7eda324c0 .sow-social-media-button { .ec_product_li:nth-child( 3n+1 ) .ec_product_editor{ left:227px; } .ec_details_right{ padding-left:0px; } .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f .sow-social-media-button-twitter-0:hover { Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-cbb7eda324c0 .social-media-button-container:after { .border-right { .ec_cart_right > .ec_cart_header.ec_top{ margin-top:15px; } text-align: left; She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. display: block; header .textwidget a#header-button-newsletter, @media only screen and ( min-width:481px ) and ( max-width:767px ){ flex-wrap: wrap; While she may be best known for writing about love and nature, she also wrote a great deal about the dichotomy between science and faith, the failings of modern society and her disdain for the role of … .ec_product_details_star_on:after{ color:#222222; border-bottom-color:#222222; } .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-cbb7eda324c0 .sow-social-media-button-twitter-0:active, color: #ffffff !important; max-width: 400px; .ec_product_star_on{ border-bottom-color:#222222 !important; color:#222222; border-bottom-color:#222222; } color: #a02121; .ec_cart_page a, .ec_restricted a{ color:#222222; } border-top: 0; .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f .sow-social-media-button-twitter-0:active, } background-position: right top !important; #ec_cart_payment_hide_column{ display:none; } } Mary Lyon, the school’s founder and first principal, was an ardent botanist herself, trained by the famous educator and horticulturalist Dr. Edward Hitchcock. 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Dickinson’s mother is generally credited with instilling in both Emily and her sister Lavinia a love of gardening. border: 1px solid #650400; .ec_image_container_none, .ec_image_container_none > div, .ec_image_container_border, .ec_image_container_border > div, .ec_image_container_shadow, .ec_image_container_shadow > div{ min-height:270px; height:270px; } display: block; } In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses. border-bottom-color: #790500; .home #digital-dickinson img.alignleft { } display: flex; Farr considers the significance of the jasmine: On the very first page, the first flower pressed by the girl Emily, was the Jasminum or jasmine, the tropical flower that would come to mean passion to her as a woman. margin: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0; .ec_product_li:nth-child( 3n+1 ){ clear:both; } — Just as her fondness for buttercups, clover, anemones, and gentians spoke of an attraction to the simple and commonplace, her taste for strange exotic blooms is that of one drawn to the unknown, the uncommon, the aesthetically venturesome. .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-cbb7eda324c0 .social-media-button-container { Born December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is considered one of America's greatest and most original poets of all time. margin: 0 0 2em 2em; } margin-bottom: 8px; .entry-content .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text { .ec_product_type6 .ec_product_meta_type6 .ec_product_addtocart:hover, .ec_product_meta_type6 .ec_product_addtocart a.ec_added_to_cart_button:hover{ background-color:#666666 !important; } float: left; #footer-widgets .ow-button-base.ow-button-align-right { } } .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f .sow-social-media-button .sow-icon-fontawesome { Privacy policy. -moz-border-radius: 0.25em; height: 1em; color: #ffffff !important; text-align: left; .ec_product_quickview_content_quantity .ec_minus:hover, .ec_product_quickview_content_quantity .ec_plus:hover{ background-color:#666666; } display: none; .cool-timeline-wrapper .timeline-main-title { } .home #welcome-row h3.widget-title { text-align: left; } margin: 0; .home #education p { .ec_category_li:nth-child( 2n+1 ){ clear:both; } background: #a02121 !important; position: absolute; } .ec_details_customer_review_list{ width:100%; } .ec_category_li:nth-child( 1n+1 ) .ec_product_editor{ left:227px; } } font: 700 1.5em "Quattrocento Sans"; } Article by redcoffie. .ec_cartitem_title{ color:#222222 !important; } #footer-widgets .widget hr { content: "\f053"; } background: #790500; } Some historians say that Emily’s … .ec_account_dashboard_row_divider a, .ec_account_order_line_column5 a, .ec_account_complete_payment_button{ background-color:#222222 !important; } } .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f .social-media-button-container { All sixty-six pages of Dickinson’s herbarium can be seen at the Harvard Libraries website. .ec_product_type5 .ec_product_quickview > input:hover{ background:#222222; background-color:#222222; } .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f .sow-social-media-button-instagram-0:active, background: radial-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.9), rgba(255,255,255,0), rgba(255,255,255,0)); } background: white; } width:100%; } } } .so-widget-sow-social-media-buttons-flat-fb8d334bcc0f .sow-social-media-button-twitter-0 { .rt-tpg-container .entry-title a { font: 400 65px/55px lustria; a.ec_cart_empty_button:hover{ background-color:#666666 } .ec_details_right{ padding-left:0px; } Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry, The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story, Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings, Singularity: Marie Howe’s Ode to Stephen Hawking, Our Cosmic Belonging, and the Meaning of Home, in a Stunning Animated Short Film, The Cosmic Miracle of Trees: Astronaut Leland Melvin Reads Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Earth’s Forests, How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe, Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert, Rebecca Solnit’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Solace, Empower, and Transform Us, Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives, In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times, A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety, The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. 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