Exhibition Lecture – Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: The Poet as Botanist

When:
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 6:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Boston Athenaeum
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
akwebiiha Angela

Categories:
Art, History, Nature, Photoworthy

Event website:
https://events.bostonathenaeum.org/en-US/4W52KhR7/emily-dickinsons-herbarium-the-poet-as-botanist-5a2KUm5Xs8P/overview

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium is a beautiful and fascinating collection of 424 pressed plants, showing the same kind of careful attention to detail she later applied to her poetry. The Herbarium is not just a reflection of Dickinson's love for nature – it also includes many of the flowers that appear in her poems and letters. By exploring these plants, we can get a deeper understanding of her work. Her collection also offers a glimpse into the local ecology of Amherst, Massachusetts, where she spent her life, with over 220 wildflowers revealing the area’s diverse natural landscape.


In this talk, Peter Grima will dive into Dickinson's botanical interests and explain how she created her Herbarium. He’ll show how these plants connect to her poetry and how they can add to the way we interpret her work. He’ll also explore the wildflowers and share what they tell us about the Amherst landscape that Dickinson would have known so well.

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