Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson led a quiet life, treasuring her privacy and eventually giving herself over completely to her art: it was in her poetry that she "deliberately decided to live" and there that she is most clearly revealed to us. Yet until now, no biography of this most enigmatic of American poets has attempted to unravel the intricate relationship between the poet's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of her poems. Now, Cynthia Griffin Wolff (author of the highly acclaimed A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton ) gives us a brilliantly literary biography of Emily Dickinson that reveals this relationship through a rich, comprehensive understanding of Dickinson herself and a new, extraordinarily illuminating reading of her exquisite yet often daunting poems. 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 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. A biography of the New England poet describing her childhood, schooling, family relationships, and presenting an interpretative study of her work The author explores poetry and life - childood, relationship with family members and friends - of the American writer Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Leven en werk van de Amerikaanse dichteres (1830-1886). NL-ZmNBD