Emily dickinson extensive biography book

Winner of the National Book Award, this massively detailed biography throws a light into the study of the brilliant poet..

This is a BIG book, over pages, crammed with extensive footnotes and appendices.

“Emily Dickinson springs to life in this remarkable, long-out-of-print biography written by her niece.

Winner of the National Book Award, this massively detailed biography throws a light into the study of the brilliant poet.

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Beneath the still surface of the poet's life lay a fiercely passionate nature and a closely guarded secret, argues her latest biographer.

The Life of Emily Dickinson

June 15, 2014

Of all the biographies of writers and thinkers that I have read and considered over decades, this particular narrative is among the most highly successful.

Biographical narrative rarely moves me to tears. This one does. And for many reasons: the simplicity, elegance, beauty of Sewall's narrative strategy and design, the steadfastness of his pursuit of ED, the clarity of his conception of the development of ED's inner life and its relationships to the behaviors that others could observe, its completeness, wholeness, unity, his cautions, the lucidity of his prose, and on and on.

This second edition of Lundin's superb work includes a standard bibliography, expanded notes, and a more extensive discussion of Dickinson's poetry than the.

So far as I can tell, at the moment, one need read only Sewall and Wineapple ("White Heat") in order to know as much of ED's experience as we're likely ever to know - or need.

But that thought raises many questions about the purpose and scope of successful literary biography: What are the minimum, essential contents of a "successful" literary biography?

At what poi