Author: William ShurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Marriage of Emily Dickinson
Author: William ShurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Approaching Emily Dickinson
Author: Fred D. WhitePublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"The book gives detailed attention to the principal trends in Dickinson scholarship during the past half-century: rhetorical and stylistic analysis of the poems and letters; biographical studies informed by theories of gender, sexuality, and by medical history; feminist studies of the poet's life and work; textual studies of the bound and unbound fascicles and the so-called worksheet drafts (or "scraps"); new assessments of the poet's social and cultural milieu, including influences on her spiritual sensibility; and of her theories of poetry, including lyricism."--BOOK JACKET.
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Author: William H. ShurrPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469621533
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume, he presents nearly 500 new poems that he and his associates excavated from her correspondence, thereby expanding the canon of Dickinson's known poems by almost one-third and making a remarkable addition to the study of American literature. Here are new riddles and epigrams, as well as longer lyrics that have never been seen as poems before. While Shurr has reformatted passages from the letters as poetry, a practice Dickinson herself occasionally followed, no words, punctuation, or spellings have been changed. Shurr points out that these new verses have much in common with Dickinson's well-known poems: they have her typical punctuation (especially the characteristic dashes and capitalizations); they use her preferred hymn or ballad meters; and they continue her search for new and unusual rhymes. Most of all, these poems continue Dickinson's remarkable experiments in extending the boundaries of poetry and human sensibility.
Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries
Author: Elizabeth A. PetrinoPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874519075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An interdisciplinary examination of the poet, her milieu, and the ways she and her contemporaries freed their work from cultural limitations.
Open Me Carefully
Author: Emily DickinsonPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 081950033X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. Praise for Open Me Carefully “With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review
Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room
Author: Kelli Russell AgodonPublisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN: 9781935210153
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A bright, funny, touching meditation on loss, love, and the power of words.
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
Author: Martha AckmannPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393609316
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, this engaging, insightful portrayal of Emily Dickinson sheds new light on one of American literature’s most enigmatic figures. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson’s life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified “Master,” and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinson’s inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an “enjoyable and absorbing” (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literature’s most enigmatic figure.
The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson
Author: Wendy MartinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Life of Emily Dickinson
Author: Richard Benson SewallPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674530805
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
A massively detailed, illustrated biography of Emily Dickinson.
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description