ellauri014.html on line 1679: Emily of New Moon. universally recognized as the book that most encoded her personality, contains one poem, or a part of a poem, also found in Montgomery’s memoir of the craft, originally published as a serial in a Canadian magazine in 1917 and later published as The Alpine Path in 1974. In Emily of New Moon the poem is sent to Emily by Jarback (Pönttöselkä) Priest as a selection from “The Fringed Gentian,” and includes this stanza:
ellauri014.html on line 1692: Being the peculiar person that I am (says the blogger), I thought I would look up the poem, “To the Fringed Gentian.” The Poetry Foundation provided the full text by William Cullen Bryant:
ellauri014.html on line 1695: To the Fringed Gentian
ellauri014.html on line 1731: “The Fringed Gentian,” Author Unknown
ellauri014.html on line 1774: Update: A reader sent in this note: A Carol Gaboury, a member of the literary society until her death in 1998, identified this information about the poem, The Fringed Gentian from the Winter 1989 issue of Kindred Spirits Newsletter of Vermont. See the note in The L.M. Montgomery Literary Society.
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