My Wars are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily DickinsonRandom House, 2001 - 764 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 Booksbrings 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a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters.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 Booksshows 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. From the Hardcover edition. |
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... asked the assem- bled students whether anyone was " so lost " to the meaning of Christmas that she opposed the fast , the one person who rose to her feet was defiant Emily Dickinson . Bianchi's anecdote has some impossible details and ...
... asked the assem- bled students whether anyone was " so lost " to the meaning of Christmas that she opposed the fast , the one person who rose to her feet was defiant Emily Dickinson . Bianchi's anecdote has some impossible details and ...
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... asked about his brother's progress and was told that the praying " had got the door unlatched , " he put " the rest of the money in his pocket , remarking that if Tim was the boy he used to be he would do the rest himself ...
... asked about his brother's progress and was told that the praying " had got the door unlatched , " he put " the rest of the money in his pocket , remarking that if Tim was the boy he used to be he would do the rest himself ...
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... asked her to return the next morning . The visitor , perhaps fourteen years old , was received in a dark utility hallway in the rear of the house and was asked whether she would prefer a rose or a glass of wine . Over sixty years later ...
... asked her to return the next morning . The visitor , perhaps fourteen years old , was received in a dark utility hallway in the rear of the house and was asked whether she would prefer a rose or a glass of wine . Over sixty years later ...
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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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