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a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters.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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... gave birth to her first child, his middle name, the one he went by, was taken from the lamented Austin. Another feature of the grandmothers' generation that had a discernible effect on the poet's life is that, where Lucretia had four ...
... gave birth to her first child, his middle name, the one he went by, was taken from the lamented Austin. Another feature of the grandmothers' generation that had a discernible effect on the poet's life is that, where Lucretia had four ...
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... gave “pleasure,” feared “it would not be prudence in me to give you a definite answer at present,” but then concluded with as definite a reply as Edward could have desired: “I shall hear from you with pleasure.” On each side, the ...
... gave “pleasure,” feared “it would not be prudence in me to give you a definite answer at present,” but then concluded with as definite a reply as Edward could have desired: “I shall hear from you with pleasure.” On each side, the ...
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... gave a political activist the impression she had grown up without having “heard of Mrs. Child.” Unlike the original Coelebs, whose chosen bride is literate and cultivated as well as home-loving, Edward chose a signally unliterary woman ...
... gave a political activist the impression she had grown up without having “heard of Mrs. Child.” Unlike the original Coelebs, whose chosen bride is literate and cultivated as well as home-loving, Edward chose a signally unliterary woman ...
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... gave her a secure lifetime tenancy, Samuel Fowler Dickinson had acquired the title to both the house and the seventeen acres that went with it. Not imagining any hitches, Edward informed his fiancée that he could have the place “any ...
... gave her a secure lifetime tenancy, Samuel Fowler Dickinson had acquired the title to both the house and the seventeen acres that went with it. Not imagining any hitches, Edward informed his fiancée that he could have the place “any ...
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... gave him some sort of interest in his part of the house. Not only was the deal a “great bargain,” but he believed he could sell out “for more than the amount of my purchase money.” Eventually, this second agreement proved as fragile as ...
... gave him some sort of interest in his part of the house. Not only was the deal a “great bargain,” but he believed he could sell out “for more than the amount of my purchase money.” Eventually, this second agreement proved as fragile as ...
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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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