- Taschenbuch: 362 Seiten
- Verlag: Paris Pr (Oktober 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0963818368
- ISBN-13: 978-0963818362
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,4 x 15 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 716.305 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Emily Dickinson is a figure of intense contradictions: the hermit, the spinster, the frail woman in white who nonetheless wrote poems of almost painfully turbulent passion. For years, biographers have speculated about the male mentor who inspired Dickinson's work, naming intellectual figures like Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Bowles as possible candidates. As it turns out, however, they might have looked closer to home. For years, both before and after a painful break in their relationship, Dickinson wrote ardent letters to her friend (and eventual sister-in-law) Susan Huntington Dickinson. In fact, she wrote more letters to Susan than to anyone else, despite the fact that at one point Susan lived only a stone's throw away. Like Dickinson's poetry, these letters are a curious business: half epistles, half poems, idiosyncratically capitalized, punctuated, and spaced. They are not merely warm, in the 19th-century way; they are fierce, even erotic, in the kind of attachment they express. Yet editors Ellen Hart and Martha Smith aren't in the business of outing anyone; they prefer to simply present the correspondence in all its passionate oddity. Susan Dickinson was clearly a friend as well as one of the most valued readers of her sister-in-law's poetry--but was she its inspiration, as well? Hart and Smith let the reader decide.
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This intriguing new collection of letters and poems, compiled by two noted Dickinson scholars, reveals a little-known side of one of America's best-loved poets. Documenting a 36-year correspondence between Emily Dickinson and her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, the book does much to negate the popular image of Emily as a mysterious, lonely recluse. In writing filled with warmth, humor, playfulness, and joy, Emily shows her profound attachment to Susan as a friend and as an object of literary inspiration. The romantic and often erotically charged writings, censored or misinterpreted in earlier collections, will surprise many readers. Building upon standard works such as Thomas Johnson's Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), Hart and Smith revise earlier scholarship and provide fresh commentary. Published by a highly selective feminist press that typically produces only two titles per year, this book is an important acquisition for academic and larger public libraries.?Ellen Sullivan, Ferguson Lib., Stamford, CT
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The most passionate letters I have ever read. Picked it up in the library and started copying down the letters! I bought it from the bookstore several days later. I am not a historian, just an admirer, and while poetry is beautiful, her letters are more easily understood by the layman. Letters only make up a small portion of the book, but it is worth it if your heart is lonely and deep.
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This collection of letters is essential to Dickinson studies and to anyone interested in the poet. Grouping Emily Dickinson's letters to her sister-in-law, Sue, who was also her best friend and only trusted editor, shows not only how close they were but also makes clear that they were intellectual peers. That is significant because so many of ED's peers did not understand her or did not recognize her importance as an intellectual and as a writer. Sue was fully appreciative of both and was able to engage in written conversation with ED about everything, including poetic advice. ED listened to advice from no one except Sue. The letters are printed as they appear on the written page without any editorial changes. This, too, is significant because it forces us to reread the letters--we have come to know the letters through the editorial work of T.H. Johnson and T. Ward, who regularized sentences and restructured paragraphs. Smith and Hart have wisely left the structure untouched so the effect for us is the same as it was for Sue all those years ago.
The editors are also co-editors of the Dickinson Electronic Archive, in which further evidence of Susan's intellect is available. Their work is just the beginning of a reassessment of Dickinson and her creative process but this work is important and this book is a must for anyone who claims to have an interest in Dickinson, no matter how slight.
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The authors are faithful to Emily Dickinson's life, not to a contrived history. Their gentle and sensitive handling of the letters and poems Emily shared with Susan Huntington Dickinson, give the reader insight into Emily's mind and heart. Where we once thought her reclusive, we now know she was exclusive. Because we don't have Susan's letters to Emily, we can never fully know the extent of their love. Still, with what we are given, it is obvious the sensitivity found in Emily was also alive in Susan, and theirs was a mutual love. It is right Susan be given credit for her role in Emily's life. Previous biographers have shied away from telling us that without Susan, we might not have Emily. I believe Susan was not only her editor, but her muse, the person who inspired her words, recognized her brilliance, and supported her work. This book is going to forever change the way we see Emily Dickinson.
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