TY  - BOOK
N2  - A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought at the close of the Civil War.  Benfey takes the seemingly arbitrary image of the hummingbird and traces its "route of evanescence" as it travels in circles to and from the creative wellsprings of the age: from the naturalist writings of abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson to the poems of his wayward pupil Emily Dickinson; into the mind of Henry Ward Beecher and within the writings and paintings of his famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Summer of Hummingbirds unveils how, through the art of these great thinkers, the hummingbird became the symbol of an era, an image through which they could explore their controversial (and often contradictory) ideas of nature, religion, sexuality, family, time, exoticism, and beauty.--From amazon.com.
AB  - A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought at the close of the Civil War.  Benfey takes the seemingly arbitrary image of the hummingbird and traces its "route of evanescence" as it travels in circles to and from the creative wellsprings of the age: from the naturalist writings of abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson to the poems of his wayward pupil Emily Dickinson; into the mind of Henry Ward Beecher and within the writings and paintings of his famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Summer of Hummingbirds unveils how, through the art of these great thinkers, the hummingbird became the symbol of an era, an image through which they could explore their controversial (and often contradictory) ideas of nature, religion, sexuality, family, time, exoticism, and beauty.--From amazon.com.
T1  - A summer of hummingbirds :love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade /
DA  - 2008.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Benfey, Christopher E. G.,
CN  - PS1541.Z5
CN  - PS1541.Z5
PB  - Penguin Press,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2008.
ID  - 327843
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Literature and history
SN  - 9781594201608
SN  - 1594201609
TI  - A summer of hummingbirds :love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007036512-b.html
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007036512-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007036512-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007036512-d.html
ER  -