Connie A. Kirk

Emily Dickinson

A Biography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using updated scholarship and never before published primary research, this new biography peels away the myths surrounding Emily Dickinson and takes a fresh look at the complex and busy life of this genius of American letters. As a research tool, the volume is also useful for its explanation of current nomenclature for the poems, mysteries and controversies, and the poet's influence on American poetry and culture. Emily Dickinson saw fewer than a dozen of her poems published in her lifetime, but she has since become one of the most revered and beloved of all American poets. As a shy woman living in 19th century New England, Dickinson wrote about large subjects through close observation of small, everyday details. After her death, her sister found more than 1,775 poems and solicited help in seeing them into print. Dickinson preferred to live most of her life at home among those she loved, but over time, some of the more unusual facts of her life became mythologized and distorted. Using updated scholarship and never before published primary research, this new biography peels away the myths surrounding Emily Dickinson and takes a fresh look at the complex and busy life of this genius of American letters. As a research tool, the volume is also useful for its explanation of current nomenclature for the poems, mysteries and controversies, and the poet's influence on American poetry and culture. A chronology is set alongside significant historical and cultural events of the period. Also included are locations of major holdings for Dickinson study, a listing of poems published in her lifetime, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

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Produktdetails

• Greenwood Biographies
• Verlag: Greenwood Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780313322068
• ISBN-10: 0313322066
• Artikelnr.: 14098715

Autorenporträt

CONNIE ANN KIRK is an author and independent scholar specializing in American and children's literature and the poet, Emily Dickinson. Her books from Greenwood Press include: J.K. Rowling: A Biography, Emily Dickinson: A Biography, Mark Twain: A Biography, Sylvia Plath: A Biography, and The Companion to American Children's Picture Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Ancestry, Early Life, and Family Education, Religion,
and Early Friendships "For Occupation -This -": The Poet at Home "Her
Travels Daily Be": Traveling Near and Far A Poets Reading The "Flood" Years
and the Civil War To Print or Publish? Later Years, Last Days The Fluid
Text and the Problem of Editing Mysteries and Controversies "An Amethyst
Remembrance": Dickinson's Reception and Legacy Appendix A: Chronology and
Historical Context Timeline Appendix B: Family Tree Appendix C: List of
Poems Published in the Poet's Lifetime Appendix D: Index of First Lines of
Emily Dickinson Poems Appendix E: Selected Reading of Emily Dickinson
Appendix F: Important Places and Holdings in Dickinson Studies Bibliography