My Emily Dickinson

Author : Susan Howe
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811223348

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My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe Pdf

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading. Giving close attention to the well-known poem, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun," Home tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture of the day. "Dickinson's life was language and a lexicon her landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she pulled text from text...."

Author : Alfred Habegger
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812966015

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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger Pdf

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a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters.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.

Author : Jennifer Berne
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452172071

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On Wings of Words by Jennifer Berne Pdf

An inspiring and kid-accessible biography of one of the world's most famous poets. Emily Dickinson, who famously wrote "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," is brought to life in this moving story. In a small New England town lives Emily Dickinson, a girl in love with small things—a flower petal, a bird, a ray of light, a word. In those small things, her brilliant imagination can see the wide world—and in her words, she takes wing. From celebrated children's author Jennifer Berne comes a lyrical and lovely account of the life of Emily Dickinson: her courage, her faith, and her gift to the world. With Dickinson's own inimitable poetry woven throughout, this lyrical biography is not just a tale of prodigious talent, but also of the power we have to transform ourselves and to reach one another when we speak from the soul. • Fantastic educational opportunity to share Emily Dickinson's story and poetry with young readers • An inspirational real-life story that will appeal to children and adults alike. • Jennifer Berne is the author of critically acclaimed children's biographies of Albert Einstein and Jacques Cousteau. Fans who enjoyed Emily Writes: Emily Dickinson and her Poetic Beginnings, Emily and Carlo, and Uncle Emily will love On Wings of Words. • Books for kids ages 5–8 • Poetry for children • Biographies for children Jennifer Berne is the award-winning author of the biographies Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau and On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein. She lives in Copake, New York. Becca Stadtlander is the illustrator of many children's and young adult publications, including Sleep Tight Farm. She was born and raised in Covington, Kentucky.

Author : Susan Howe
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811216837

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My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe Pdf

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops." The New York Sun"

Author : Judith Farr
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674656660

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The Passion of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr Pdf

In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, deciphering their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of the day.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780241251423

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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson Pdf

'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSD:31822010790632

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Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Pdf

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781590307007

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The Pocket Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Pdf

Considered by many to be the spiritual mother of American poetry, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was one of the most prolific and innovative poets of her era. Well-known for her reclusive personal life in Amherst, Massachusetts , her distinctively short lines, and eccentric approach to punctuation and capitalization, she completed over seventeen hundred poems in her short life. Though fewer than a dozen of her poems were actually published during her lifetime, she is still one of the most widely read poets in the English language. Over one hundred of her best poems are collected here.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554533398

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My Letter to the World and Other Poems by Emily Dickinson Pdf

In keeping with the acclaimed and innovative Visions in Poetry series, artist Isabelle Arsenault has created a subtle and haunting meditation on Dickinson's life and its intersection with her verse.

Author : Martha Ackmann
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393609318

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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, this engaging, insightful portrayal of Emily Dickinson sheds new light on one of American literature’s most enigmatic figures. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson’s life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified “Master,” and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinson’s inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an “enjoyable and absorbing” (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literature’s most enigmatic figure.

Author : Emily Dickinson,Susan Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 081122175X

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The Gorgeous Nothings by Emily Dickinson,Susan Howe Pdf

'The Gorgeous Nothings' is a full-colour publication of Emily Dickinson's complete envelope writings.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781423652830

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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson Pdf

Part of a new collection of literary voices from Gibbs Smith, written by, and for, extraordinary women—to encourage, challenge, and inspire. One of American’s most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion, and society. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is a collection from her vast archive of poetry to inspire the writers, creatives, and leaders of today. Continue your journey in the Women’s Voices series with Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte and The Feminist Papers by Mary Wollstonecraft.

Author : Jerome Charyn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393077254

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The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel by Jerome Charyn Pdf

"In this brilliant and hilarious jailbreak of a novel, Charyn channels the genius poet and her great leaps of the imagination." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) Jerome Charyn, "one of the most important writers in American literature" (Michael Chabon), continues his exploration of American history through fiction with The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, hailed by prize-winning literary historian Brenda Wineapple as a "breathtaking high-wire act of ventriloquism." Channeling the devilish rhythms and ghosts of a seemingly buried literary past, Charyn removes the mysterious veils that have long enshrouded Dickinson, revealing her passions, inner turmoil, and powerful sexuality. The novel, daringly written in first person, begins in the snow. It's 1848, and Emily is a student at Mount Holyoke, with its mournful headmistress and strict, strict rules. Inspired by her letters and poetry, Charyn goes on to capture the occasionally comic, always fevered, ultimately tragic story of her life-from defiant Holyoke seminarian to dying recluse.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 1829 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9783986774172

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The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson Pdf

The Complete Poems Emily Dickinson - Only eleven of Emily Dickinsons poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumously published collections-some of them featuring liberally edited versions of the poems-did not fully and accurately represent Dickinsons bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinsons extraordinary poetic genius.

Author : Susan Howe
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811226868

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Debths by Susan Howe Pdf

The newest collection by one of America’s most exciting poets A collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths’ inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also addresses memory’s threads and galaxies, “the rule of remoteness,” and “the luminous story surrounding all things noumenal.” Following the preface are four sections of poetry: “Titian Air Vent,” “Tom Tit Tot” (her newest collage poems), “Periscope,” and “Debths.” As always with Howe, Debths brings “a not-being-in-the-no.”