The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ISBN-10
- 0374186944
- ISBN-13
- 9780374186944
- Category
- Literary Criticism / Women Authors
- Pages
- 821
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author
- Richard Benson Sewall
Description
The life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall's monumental biography of the great American poet (1830-1886), wont the National Book Award when it was originally publsihed in two volumes. Now available in the one-volume eidtion, it has been called "by far the best and most complete study of the poet's life yet to be written, the result of nearly twenty years of work" (The Atlantic).
R.W.B. Lewis has hailed it as "a major event in Americn letters," adding that "Richard Sewall's biographical vision of Emily Dickinson is as complete as humans cholarship, ingenuity, stylistic pungency, and common sense can arrive at."
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