Flights of fancy

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade By Christopher Benfey Penguin, 287 pp., illustrated, $25.95 Strange as it may seem, during the decades spanning 1862 to 1882 especially, the hummingbird became a notable American icon,...

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