Author: Rebecca PattersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Riddle of Emily Dickinson
Author: Rebecca Patterson“The” Riddle of Emily Dickinson
Author: Rebecca PattersonThe Riddle of Emily Dickinson
Author: Rebecca PattersonNew Poems of Emily Dickinson
Author: William H. ShurrPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469621533
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume, he presents nearly 500 new poems that he and his associates excavated from her correspondence, thereby expanding the canon of Dickinson's known poems by almost one-third and making a remarkable addition to the study of American literature. Here are new riddles and epigrams, as well as longer lyrics that have never been seen as poems before. While Shurr has reformatted passages from the letters as poetry, a practice Dickinson herself occasionally followed, no words, punctuation, or spellings have been changed. Shurr points out that these new verses have much in common with Dickinson's well-known poems: they have her typical punctuation (especially the characteristic dashes and capitalizations); they use her preferred hymn or ballad meters; and they continue her search for new and unusual rhymes. Most of all, these poems continue Dickinson's remarkable experiments in extending the boundaries of poetry and human sensibility.
The Life of Emily Dickinson
Author: Richard Benson SewallPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674530805
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
A massively detailed, illustrated biography of Emily Dickinson.
The Marriage of Emily Dickinson
Author: William ShurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A Loaded Gun
Author: Jerome CharynPublisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1934137995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The Oprah Magazine “Best Books of Summer” selection “Magnetic nonfiction.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Remarkable insight . . . [a] unique meditation/investigation. . . . Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic is a natural match for Emily Dickinson, the quintessence of these.” —Joyce Carol Oates, author of Wild Nights! and The Lost Landscape We think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged poet who wrote: My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— … Though I than He— may longer live He longer must—than I— For I have but the power to kill, Without—the power to die— Through interviews with contemporary scholars, close readings of Dickinson’s correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyn’s literary sleuthing reveals the great poet in ways that have only been hinted at previously: as a woman who was deeply philosophical, intensely engaged with the world, attracted to members of both sexes, and able to write poetry that disturbs and delights us today. Jerome Charyn is the author of, most recently, Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories, I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War, and The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel. He lives in New York.
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Emily Dickinson and Riddle
Author: Dolores Dyer LucasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875800110
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
My Emily Dickinson
Author: Susan HowePublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"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," Howe 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...."