Emily Dickinson
Published on 22. January 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-201-16809-9 (ISBN)
Description
Cynthia Griffin Wolff's brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between her life and her poetry. It is a vivid portrait of the poet and her times as well as a fascinating interpretive study of the poems that will enable every reader to approach them with new understanding and delight.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1080 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-16809-9 (9780201168099)
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Person
Cynthia Griffin Wolff holds the Class of 1922 Professorship of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton and Samuel Richardson and the Eighteenth Century Puritan Character.
Content
* Prologue: The Oven Bird My Fathers 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 * Interlude: Context and Subject Pugilist And Poet * The Voice * The Wrestle for Dominion: Gods Supernatural Redefined * Love and the Love Poetry * The Razors Edge: Some Specimen Poems Adieu * The Cosmos as Mirror * Can You Make a World Anew with Words? * Requiem * One of the Ones that Midas Touched