Using updated scholarship and never-before-published primary research, this new biography takes a fresh look at a genius of American letters.
This text challenges some of the more pious views of Emily Dickinson. The author examines her background, letters and poems from a social, cultural and historical perspective, and presents a more complex portrait of Dickinson and her work.
An illustrated introduction to the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
Unpublished in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's, intensely personal lyrics have been much admired and very influential since.
The selections have been made by the distinguished poet, critic, and biographer Ian Hamilton. This book contains selected poems written by Emily Dickinson.
Among her most famous poems included here are: Success Is Counted Sweetest, I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, and This Is My Letter to the World.
This collection of some of her finest works illustrates not only Dickinson's talent as a writer but her profound love of language, nature, and life.
A collection of classic poems that provide an accessible introduction to the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Printed in a high quality, cloth edition each volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.
Briefly looks at the poet's life, describes the themes, style, and reception of her poetry, and inclused a selection of the poems
Emily Dickinson published fewer than twenty poems during her lifetime (the number has risen gently as a result of recent intensive scholarship). Instead she sent her poems in letters and as letters, and she self-published by copying out ...
As is well documented, Emily Dickinson's poems were edited in these early editions by her friends, better to fit the conventions of the times. In particular, her dashes, often small enough to appear as dots, became commas and ...
Then she abruptly concludes : I'm glad I don't believe it For it w'd stop my breathAnd I'd like to look a little more At such a curious Earth ! I'm glad they did believe it Whom I have never found Since the mightly Autumn afternoon I ...
Now, Cynthia Griffin Wolff (author of the highly acclaimed A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton) gives us a brilliantly literary biography of Emily Dickinson that reveals this relationship through a rich, comprehensive ...
With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century.
In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
Dickie, Margaret, Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). ... The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum edition, Thomas H. Johnson (ed.) 3 vols.
Emily Dickinson's Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland, edited by Theodora Van Wagenen Ward. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951. Emily Dickinson: A Revelation, by Millicent Todd Bingham. New York: Harper, 1954.
Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography
Traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style of poetry.