L2L Roses Are Read (ft. Carol Andrews)

Roses Are Read

Poetry and Other Literature on the Rose

“Nobody knows this little Rose,” so said Emily Dickinson, but writers (and lovers) have been musing about the rose since, perhaps, roses began. What is it about this precious flower that captures our imaginations so? Shakespeare declared that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” and William Blake pined for the innocent rose made ill by the worm of experience. This week, Leigh, P. T., and Dr. C. (regular-but-still-special-guest Professor Carol Andrews) stake the claim that roses are to be “read,” so join us for poems and other literature about this “lady of the land.”

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