My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily DickinsonRandom House Publishing Group, 15 груд. 2001 р. - 784 стор. Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson’s growth–a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production. Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters. Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish and why was this refusal so integral an aspect of her work? Habegger also illuminates many of the essential connection sin Dickinson’s story: between the decay of doctrinal Protestantism and the emergence of her riddling lyric vision; between her father’s political isolation after the Whig Party’s collapse and her private poetic vocation; between her frustrated quest for human intimacy and the tuning of her uniquely seductive voice. The definitive treatment of Dickinson’s life and times, and of her poetic development, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books shows how she could be both a woman of her era and a timeless creator. Although many aspects of her life and work will always elude scrutiny, her living, changing profile at least comes into focus in this meticulous and magisterial biography. |
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... daughter reported in his old age; “he thinks he cannot get along without lending a helping hand to every man's plough.” The woman Samuel married on March 21, 1802, Lucretia Gunn of nearby Montague, was said by one of her daughters to be ...
... daughter reported in his old age; “he thinks he cannot get along without lending a helping hand to every man's plough.” The woman Samuel married on March 21, 1802, Lucretia Gunn of nearby Montague, was said by one of her daughters to be ...
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... daughters' education, he was so eager to have them attend a course of lectures by the botanist Amos Eaton that he ... daughter noted that “Papa has had ten men to work for him all the week they are to work upon his house.” A year and ...
... daughters' education, he was so eager to have them attend a course of lectures by the botanist Amos Eaton that he ... daughter noted that “Papa has had ten men to work for him all the week they are to work upon his house.” A year and ...
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... daughter explained, was that South College's roof was on and work had ceased for the winter. The craziness at home, whatever that was, reflected Samuel's obliteration of the line between the world at large and domestic life—a line his ...
... daughter explained, was that South College's roof was on and work had ceased for the winter. The craziness at home, whatever that was, reflected Samuel's obliteration of the line between the world at large and domestic life—a line his ...
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... daughter, Elizabeth, in particular, venerated him as one of the righteous in Israel, one who risked and lost everything for Amherst College—a family myth largely accepted by twentieth-century biographers. What was forgotten was that ...
... daughter, Elizabeth, in particular, venerated him as one of the righteous in Israel, one who risked and lost everything for Amherst College—a family myth largely accepted by twentieth-century biographers. What was forgotten was that ...
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... daughter to be “marching around the town . . . like some old Roman General upon a Triumph Day.” In his old age she ... daughters, whose sex disqualified them from citizenship. Early in 1826 Major Dickinson had “Camp duty” in the town of ...
... daughter to be “marching around the town . . . like some old Roman General upon a Triumph Day.” In his old age she ... daughters, whose sex disqualified them from citizenship. Early in 1826 Major Dickinson had “Camp duty” in the town of ...
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18471852 | |
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary | |
First Drunkenness | |
Somebodys Reveries | |
18521858 | |
A Sheltered Life | |
News of the Ancient School of True Poets | |
Troubles and Riddles | |
18401847 | |
First Years on West Street | |
Amherst Academy | |
Death and Friendship | |
18581865 | |
18661886 | |
Standing Buildings Associated with Emily Dickinson | |
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson Alfred Habegger Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2002 |
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