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Emily Dickinson

By Wolff , Cynthia Griffin

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Distributed by Random House
ISBN
0394544188, 9780804153461, 9780394544182
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (5840344 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
641\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American -- 19th century -- BiographyAmerican--19th century--Biography;PoetsPoets

Description

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.

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