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An edition of Emily Dickinson (1986)

Emily Dickinson

1st ed.

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Cynthia Griffin Wolff gives us a brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson that reveals the relationship between the poet's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of her poems, through a rich, comprehensive understanding of Dickinson herself and a new, extraordinarily illuminating reading of her exquisite yet often daunting poems. All of the details of the poet's life are here, but Cynthia Griffin Wolff goes beyond the factual approach of previous biographers to give us a vivid context for Dickinson's life. This book is the closest we are likely to come to a definitive life of Emily Dickinson, and an unparalleled interpretive study of her poetry. - Jacket flap.

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Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Language
English
Pages
641

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Subjects

American Poets, Biography, Poets, American, New York Times reviewed, Dickinson, emily, 1830-1886, American Women poets

People

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Times

19th century

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Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
1988, Addison-Wesley
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Emily Dickinson
1986, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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Table of Contents

Prologue : The Oven Bird
Part one : My Father's House.
Samuel and Edward : The Last Jerusalem
Mother and Father : The Fall into Language
School : Faith and the Argument from Design
The 1850s : Apprenticeship and Vocation
Part two : Interlude : Context and Subject
Part three : Pugilist and Poet.
The Voice.
The Poet's Problem with a "Woman's Place"
The Voice of the Child
The "Wife's" Voice
The Proleptic Voice
The Possibilities for Publication
The Wrestle for Dominion : God's "Supernatural" Redefined.
The Ravishment of Faith
"Nature" Reviewed
A New Calendar of Signs
The Masks of Divinity and the Coordinates of Heaven
Experiment
Love and the Love Poetry.
The Language of Love
Love in the Real World
At the Conclusion Was the Word
Part four : The Razor's Edge : Some Specimen Poems
Part five : Adieu.
The Cosmos as Mirror
Can You Make a World Anew with Words?
Requiem
Part six : One of the Ones that Midas Touched

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 595-605.
Includes indexes.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.4, B
Library of Congress
PS1541.Z5 W58 1986

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 641 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
641
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

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OL2721689M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0394544188
LCCN
86015192
OCLC/WorldCat
14068613
Library Thing
76654
Goodreads
1021469

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