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a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters.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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... telling” was one of the things she did to perfection. How that came to be is part of the story this book attempts to follow. Coming to this project after having written about the James family, I was struck by an assumption pervading a ...
... telling” was one of the things she did to perfection. How that came to be is part of the story this book attempts to follow. Coming to this project after having written about the James family, I was struck by an assumption pervading a ...
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... tell the story that seems implicit in the documentary record that is available to us, and at the same time to let the reader behind the scenes by showing just where that record has been fractured. I have aimed at something serviceable ...
... tell the story that seems implicit in the documentary record that is available to us, and at the same time to let the reader behind the scenes by showing just where that record has been fractured. I have aimed at something serviceable ...
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... tell a very different story from what we read in Samuel Fowler Dickinson's desperate mortgages. Joel was also a pillar of Monson's First Congregational Church, a more stable, active, and, as was said, “efficient” society than Amherst's ...
... tell a very different story from what we read in Samuel Fowler Dickinson's desperate mortgages. Joel was also a pillar of Monson's First Congregational Church, a more stable, active, and, as was said, “efficient” society than Amherst's ...
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... tell them of the beauty of one passage, or the defects of another . . . She knows the character of all our public men, and never hesitates to pronounce an opinion upon the policy of their measures.” Such will be the baneful results of ...
... tell them of the beauty of one passage, or the defects of another . . . She knows the character of all our public men, and never hesitates to pronounce an opinion upon the policy of their measures.” Such will be the baneful results of ...
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... tell you all about her & the house, and what he thinks of our prospect of having a comfortable house. Emily's father was a man of standing and judgment, and his presence, approval, and advice meant a great deal to Edward. The occasional ...
... tell you all about her & the house, and what he thinks of our prospect of having a comfortable house. Emily's father was a man of standing and judgment, and his presence, approval, and advice meant a great deal to Edward. The occasional ...
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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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