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a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters.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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... .” Indeed, judging from Samuel's intense lifelong drive, it looks as if he took to heart Emmons's curious “Exercise Scheme,” a religious teaching that gave unusual emphasis to the *2 power of the will and the obligation to use.
... .” Indeed, judging from Samuel's intense lifelong drive, it looks as if he took to heart Emmons's curious “Exercise Scheme,” a religious teaching that gave unusual emphasis to the *2 power of the will and the obligation to use.
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... gave “himself but four hours of sleep, studying and reading till midnight, and rising at four o'clock he often walked to Pelham or some other town before breakfast. Going to court at Northampton, he would catch up his green bag and walk ...
... gave “himself but four hours of sleep, studying and reading till midnight, and rising at four o'clock he often walked to Pelham or some other town before breakfast. Going to court at Northampton, he would catch up his green bag and walk ...
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... gave was the same as before: “necessity—inability to supply the money necessary at N. H.” This time he softened the blow by allowing his son to “take a room in the College building, and have no connection with home except boarding ...
... gave was the same as before: “necessity—inability to supply the money necessary at N. H.” This time he softened the blow by allowing his son to “take a room in the College building, and have no connection with home except boarding ...
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... gave the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company additional mortgages worth $3,000. Four months after that, in exchange for $6,000, he gave Smith mortgages on a long list of properties including the Dickinson Homestead, now doubly ...
... gave the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company additional mortgages worth $3,000. Four months after that, in exchange for $6,000, he gave Smith mortgages on a long list of properties including the Dickinson Homestead, now doubly ...
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... gave birth to nine children and was kept busy by a vast array of pressing domestic labors. But “crazy” as Lucretia Dickinson's situation at home may have been, at least none of her children died before her. Betsey Norcross had to bury ...
... gave birth to nine children and was kept busy by a vast array of pressing domestic labors. But “crazy” as Lucretia Dickinson's situation at home may have been, at least none of her children died before her. Betsey Norcross had to bury ...
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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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