Provides a selection of letters that poet Emily Dickinson sent to her friends and family, in which the legend discusses tending her garden, baking bread, marking the milestones of her loved ones, confessing her joys and sorrows and much more, in an pocket-sized edition that includes a ribbon marker.
Bonded Leather binding
The famous American poet as a person and a literary figure is seen through sensitive and expressive correspondence that spans her life from childhood to maturity
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a...
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.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson is a must-read biography reimagined for modern readers.
Originally published for the centennial of Emily Dickinson's death in 1886, contains the drafts of three letters to a person Emily addresses as 'Master,' accompanied by an introduction and comments by the noted Dickinson manuscript scholar, ...
The selection of letters presented here provides a fuller picture of the eccentric recluse of legend, showing how immersed in life she was: we see her tending her garden; baking bread; marking the marriages, births, and deaths of those she ...
Original essays explore a brilliant poet's written correspondence
Leonard Meyer amplifies this theory of the a›ective power of major and minor modes in his study Emotion and Meaning in Music. Here, Meyer confirms that from Plato down to the most recent discussions of aesthetics and the meaning of ...
This volume, then, is a collaboration between two writers, one a 19th-century woman whose work became known to most readers only in the 20th century, and the other a post-modernist man of letters--an award-winning poet, critic, and scholar.