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a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters.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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... fear of “receiving an injury to my reputation, at the very outset of my career.” Prevailed on anyway, partly because “the charges were brought in my father's name,” he never felt “more unpleasantly” than when entering the Connecticut ...
... fear of “receiving an injury to my reputation, at the very outset of my career.” Prevailed on anyway, partly because “the charges were brought in my father's name,” he never felt “more unpleasantly” than when entering the Connecticut ...
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... granted she would be “attending to domestic affairs this summer,” but still expressed the hope there would be leisure for “social intercourse or reading” and she would not be “continually pent up in the kitchen.” His fears seem.
... granted she would be “attending to domestic affairs this summer,” but still expressed the hope there would be leisure for “social intercourse or reading” and she would not be “continually pent up in the kitchen.” His fears seem.
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... fears seem to have been on target: in his next letter, dated November 1 (the season when hordes of flies left barnyards for the warmth of houses), he could only trust that she was “victorious over your mortal enemies, the Flies.” It may ...
... fears seem to have been on target: in his next letter, dated November 1 (the season when hordes of flies left barnyards for the warmth of houses), he could only trust that she was “victorious over your mortal enemies, the Flies.” It may ...
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... fear I shall soon be enquired for.” Because Edward saw the exchange of letters as a formal precontractual process in which each party “would be perfectly plain & use the utmost freedom of remark,” he made a strenuous effort to convey a ...
... fear I shall soon be enquired for.” Because Edward saw the exchange of letters as a formal precontractual process in which each party “would be perfectly plain & use the utmost freedom of remark,” he made a strenuous effort to convey a ...
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... fears they joggle the Mind.” If by “the Mind” we understand “the female mind,” this remark looks like a critical summation of Edward's Coelebs papers, which say, essentially, that, though women should be taught the alphabet, this is a ...
... fears they joggle the Mind.” If by “the Mind” we understand “the female mind,” this remark looks like a critical summation of Edward's Coelebs papers, which say, essentially, that, though women should be taught the alphabet, this is a ...
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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 | |
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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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