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June 13: Judith Farr '57 Discusses Emily Dickinson in 'Eden': The Spring Garden
June 13, 2010
Date: Sunday, June 13
Time: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: The New York Botanical Garden, Ross Lecture Hall
Registration Information: The New York Botanical Garden at (718) 817-8700.
Judith Farr ’57, professor of English Emerita at Georgetown University and author of The Gardens of Emily Dickinson, presents a lecture and slide show at The New York Botanical Garden. Farr will speak on the topic of Dickinson’s habit of referring to her own two-acre garden as "my Eden" or "Eden in Amherst" and discuss how this image of Eden that prevails in Dickinson’s poems and letters corresponds to the images of Eden that appears in the works of the American Hudson River and Impressionist painters.
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