| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Literary lives |
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Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
1. Reaching 1850 -- 2. Dickinson's Search, to Find the Poem of Her Being -- 3. Losses into Art -- 4. Dickinson's Expanding Readership -- 5. Dickinson and War -- 6. Colonel Higginson as Mentor -- 7. Life Without Home, For the Last Time -- 8. Dickinson's Fascicles, Beginning and Endings -- 9. The Painful Interim -- 10. To Define "Belief" -- 11. 1865, The Late Miracle -- 12. Maintaining Urgency -- 13. Colonel Higginson, Appearing -- 14. 1870-1873 -- 15. The Beginning of the Calendar of Deaths -- 16. Surviving Death -- 17. 'Mother's Hopeless Illness' -- 18. Courtships -- 19. 'The Poets light but Lamps' -- 20. The Loving Dickinson |
| Summary |
This literary biography study offers a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's life, as a poet as well as a daughter of a prominent Amherst, Massachusetts, family. For many years accompanied by her large dog, she well knew the worlds of nature and natural beauties. For many more years, she chronicled her life - especially her life of the imagination - in hundreds of letters, as well as the nearly 1,800 poems that have been found. Such rich material informs this book's narrative, building a picture of a woman loyal to her parents and her myriad of friends, as well as siblings, niece and nephews, and her sister-in-law Susan Gilbert Dickinson, her constant muse. Never content with passive acceptance, or a live that conformed to the dutiful unmarried daughter's role, Dickinson the poet worked all her mature life to bring her art to its consistently firm - and always brilliant - greatness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Publisher supplied information |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
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| SUBJECT |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 fast |
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Dickinson, Emily 1830-1886 gnd |
| Subject |
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography
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Women -- United States -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Poets, American
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Women
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Författare -- Förenta staterna -- 1800-talet -- biografi.
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Litteraturvetenskap.
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Poesi.
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Authors -- United States -- 19th century -- biography.
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Literary studies.
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Poetry.
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Kvinnliga poeter.
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Amerikanska poeter.
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Biography.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013404998 |
| ISBN |
9781137033062 |
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1137033061 |
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1349441368 |
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9781349441365 |
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9781306179430 |
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1306179432 |
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