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a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters.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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... terms of the collective struggles of her time. Unlike her father, Edward, a conservative bulwark of the public world as she knew it, she was relegated to the private sphere, and that at a time when specifically domestic and affectionate ...
... terms of the collective struggles of her time. Unlike her father, Edward, a conservative bulwark of the public world as she knew it, she was relegated to the private sphere, and that at a time when specifically domestic and affectionate ...
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... terms within which she defined and dared to exercise her high calling—an artist's heroic errand into and out of a wilderness all her own. All the Armor of Fortitude and Determination Samuel Fowler Dickinson, the poet's grandfather ...
... terms within which she defined and dared to exercise her high calling—an artist's heroic errand into and out of a wilderness all her own. All the Armor of Fortitude and Determination Samuel Fowler Dickinson, the poet's grandfather ...
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... term break and escort his sisters. He added, uncoercively, “I do not mean to direct, but to express my desire, that you should do this.” By 1813 Samuel had fathered five of his nine children and it was time to enlarge his family's ...
... term break and escort his sisters. He added, uncoercively, “I do not mean to direct, but to express my desire, that you should do this.” By 1813 Samuel had fathered five of his nine children and it was time to enlarge his family's ...
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... term before the Squire required him to sell his furniture and return home. Since the new college was not yet in operation, that meant going back to Amherst Academy. At first Samuel tried to pretend the school offered as good an ...
... term before the Squire required him to sell his furniture and return home. Since the new college was not yet in operation, that meant going back to Amherst Academy. At first Samuel tried to pretend the school offered as good an ...
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... term, the entry to his room in Middle College had been in frequent uproar. Now “you could pass through no entry . . . without overhearing the low, earnest, supplicating voice of prayer.” The popular senior-class “ringleader” experienced ...
... term, the entry to his room in Middle College had been in frequent uproar. Now “you could pass through no entry . . . without overhearing the low, earnest, supplicating voice of prayer.” The popular senior-class “ringleader” experienced ...
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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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