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21. My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook) by Susan Howe | |
Paperback: 160
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(2007-11-15)
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Oddly composed, but with a few fine opals inside...
My Emily Dickinson
Very Interesting Take
Tremendously overrated book
If you think you know Emily... Howe points out how Dickinson'spoetry has been overlooked in light of her character and biography. Itseems that in the 19th century, it was remarkable for a woman to be a poetat all, let alone write original, rebellious, and quite modern poetry.Hence, the work itself, though enjoyed by schoolchildren all over America,has been little understood. Delving into Dickinson's reading lists, hernotes and letters, and analyzing a few poems, Howe explores the workings ofan intricate mind. She uncovers connections between Dickinson and theBrownings, the Brontes, and James Fenimore Cooper, and she shows howseemingly submissive, soft spoken poetic lines are actually rebellious andeven at times angry. What Howe does not do is confuse the image of"The Belle of Amhearst" with the vital workings of the mind ofthis remarkable woman. This book is an enjoyable read filled with Howe'sadmiration for her artistic predecessor and written in straightforwardlanguage, not literary jargon--a tribute from one poet to another. Foranyone who enjoys Emily Dickinson's poetry, it is not to be missed. ... Read more |
22. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 136
Pages
(1993-09-24)
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Editorial Review Book Description 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. |
23. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger | |
Kindle Edition: 800
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(2001-12-15)
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24. Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson (New York Public Library Collector's Editions) by Emily Dickinson | |
Hardcover: 336
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(1997-04-14)
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25. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson by Martha Nell Smith | |
Paperback: 286
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(1992-12)
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26. The Cambridge Introduction to EmilyDickinson (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Wendy Martin | |
Paperback: 158
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(2007-03-19)
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27. Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar by Cristanne Miller | |
Paperback: 256
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(1989-10-15)
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28. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library) by Emily Dickinson | |
Hardcover: 320
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(1996-06-03)
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Sanitized Emily
This isn't quite the letter Emily was writing to the world...
You gotta buy this book.
This is not really the edition you want. In a way, the situation is a bit like the one that prevails with regard to food.Would you rather eat natural food or genetically modified food?Maybe the modified food doesn't taste any different, but it might be doing harmful things to us that the author of real food never intended.So why take a risk when we can have the real thing ? There are two major editors who can be relied on for accurate texts of ED's poems.These are Dickinson scholars R. W. Franklin and Thomas H. Johnson.Both produced large Variorum editions for scholars, alongwith reader's editions of the Complete Poems for the ordinary reader.Details of their respective reader's editions are as follows. THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON : Reading Edition.Edited byR. W. Franklin.692 pp.Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.ISBN 0-674-67624-6 (hbk.) THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON.Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 784 pp. Boston : Little, Brown, 1960 and Reissued.ISBN: 0316184136 (pbk.) For those who don't feel up to tackling the Complete Poems, there is Johnson's abridgement of his Reader's edition, an excellent selectionof what he feels were her best poems: FINAL HARVEST : Emily Dickinson's Poems.Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 352 pages.New York : Little Brown & Co, 1997. ISBN: 0316184152 (paperbound). Friends, do yourself a favor and get Johnson's edition.Why accept a watered-down version when you can have the real thing?
This is not really the edition you want. In a way, the situation is a bit like the one that prevails with regard to food.Would you rather eat natural food or genetically modified food?Maybe the modified food doesn't taste any different, but it might be doing harmful things to you that the author of real food never intended.So why take a risk when we can have the real thing ? There are two major editors who can be relied on for accurate texts of ED's poems.These are Dickinson scholars R. W. Franklin and Thomas H. Johnson.Both produced large Variorum editions for scholars, alongwith reader's editions of the Complete Poems for the ordinary reader.Details of their respective reader's editions are as follows. THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON : Reading Edition.Edited byR. W. Franklin.692 pp.Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.ISBN 0-674-67624-6 (hbk.) THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON.Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 784 pp. Boston : Little, Brown, 1960 and Reissued.ISBN: 0316184136 (pbk.) For those who don't feel up to tackling the Complete Poems, there is Johnson's abridgement of his Reader's edition, an excellent selectionof what he feels were her best poems: FINAL HARVEST : Emily Dickinson's Poems.Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 352 pages.New York : Little Brown & Co, 1997. ISBN: 0316184152 (paperbound). Friends, do yourself a favor and get Johnson's edition.Why accept a watered-down version when you can have the real thing? ... Read more |
29. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems (Bloomsbury Classic Poetry) by Emily Dickinson | |
Hardcover: 128
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(1993-08-15)
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I love to see it lap the miles/ and lick the valleys up
Hidden meaning and insight in every poem............. Every poem seems has more than one meaning. You can truely see how complicated this simple woman must have been even in her observations. I have been delighted by her insight and each poem makes me wonder of the woman who wrote them. A lovely read.
A prism which captures the white light of reality It is the rich suggestiveness of her poems, a suggestiveness which generates an incredible range of meanings, that prevents us from ever being able to say (to continue the metaphor) that a given poem is 'about red' or 'about blue,' because her poems, as US critic Robert Weisbuch has observed, are in fact about _everything_. This is what makes her so unique, and this is why she appeals to every kind of reader (or certainly to open-minded ones) and even to children. Emily Dickinson's poetry is one of the wonders of the world. ... Read more |
30. Emily Dickinson (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Cynthia Griffin Wolff | |
Paperback: 676
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(1988-06-01)
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Good Stuff As noted by another reviewer, Wolff does approach this biography with a kind of agenda.She is most interested in demonstrating how Dickinson rebelled (both in work and life) against the Trinitarian Christianity of her upbringing.Wolff really excels here, and her insight is delicious.Wolff also imbues her readings with a feminist tilt; she never descends into theoretical jargon, but her readings are often skewed by her concern with gender.I wasn't bothered by this, since her interpretations still proved fruitful and provocative.Wolff is weakest in describing ED's relationship with her mother; the psychological bent she brings to this rings a bit hollow for me, and she rides her insight about the infant poet's emotional deprivation through the entire work.Her speculation, in my opinion, isn't helpful or needed. As a life story, this volume isn't quite so complete as it might've been.It's more a work of criticism than biographical scholarship (although Wolff brings much learning to bear in her critiques on ED's work).If you're interested in the specifics of Dickinson's life, I'd recommend starting with Sewall's monumental biography. It's also worth noting that some critics have disagreed with Wolff's commentary on Dickinson's life, particular the poet's childhood (Wolff's take on it is rather bleak, a conclusion not necessarily supported by the historical records).I'm not a Dickinson scholar, so I can't answer to these arguments.I do love ED's poetry deeply, however, and found this book a compassionate and fascinating read.
Penetrating View of ED's Thought-World and Private Language Wolff's readings are unconventional because, quite frankly, she's one of the few who's gone to the trouble of realizing that Dickinson had an ICONOGRAPHY, that certain terms appear with regularity of time and meaning."Ample", "wrestle", "elect", "father", "bird", "bee"-- one can go on and on, if one really looks -- all derive meaning *cumulatively* from Dickinson's poetic work and voluminous, lapidarian correspondence.Many terms are consistently ironic, or mean their opposites; 'reading' the poems without realizing this will produce the kinds of interpretations produced with disappointing regularity by less careful critics.Wolff has drunk it all in, and synthesized it, in a monumental work of decipherment. This probably shouldn't be the only Dickinson biography one reads.But it should be at the top of any such list.
Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Griffin Wolff Wolff should have written an editorial and clearly marked itas such. However, one good service was provided. My friends and I wouldread a poem being discussed by Wolff, and then read her "forced"interpretation of it. We had many hearty laughs. But we also felt genuinepity for Wolff. Is this what she has to do to defend her agenda? Does shehave no other means? I do not worry about scholars reading this book. Infact they should read it. They will easily discover those parts that areuseful---and there are many---and discard the rest. But what about youngstudents? What of those who do not know Emily and pick this book as theirfirst meeting with her? Instead, may I suggest they read "TheCapsule of the Mind" by Theodora Ward. It is also a psychological lookat Emily Dickinson. Ward is the granddaughter of Doctor and Mrs. JosiahGilbert Holland, two of Emily's closest friends. Ward was also an assistantto Thomas H. Johnson, Harvard University, the person most responsible forbringing us Emily's letters and poems. In fact, Ward herself was inspiredto become a Dickinson scholar when she discovered sixty-five of Emily'sletters in her family's attic. Cynthia Wolff, please spare us yourpolitically correct---but factually incorrect---views on EmilyDickinson. Joe Psarto,Westlake,Ohio
Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Griffin Wolff Wolff should have written an editorial and clearly marked itas such. However, one good service was provided. My friends and I wouldread a poem being discussed by Wolff, and then read her "forced"interpretation of it. We had many hearty laughs. But we also felt genuinepity for Wolff. Is this what she has to do to defend her agenda? Does shehave no other means? I do not worry about scholars reading this book. Infact they should read it. They will easily discover those parts that areuseful---and there are many---and discard the rest. But what about youngstudents? What of those who do not know Emily and pick this book as theirfirst meeting with her? Instead, may I suggest they read "TheCapsule of the Mind" by Theodora Ward. It is also a psychological lookat Emily Dickinson. Ward is the granddaughter of Doctor and Mrs. JosiahGilbert Holland, two of Emily's closest friends. Ward was also an assistantto Thomas H. Johnson, Harvard University, the person most responsible forbringing us Emily's letters and poems. In fact, Ward herself was inspiredto become a Dickinson scholar when she discovered sixty-five of Emily'sletters in her family's attic. Cynthia Wolff, please spare us yourpolitically correct---but factually incorrect---views on EmilyDickinson. Joe Psarto 27843 Detroit Road # 412 Westlake, Ohio 44145(440-835-5179)>jpsarto@juno.com< ... Read more |
31. This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson | |
Hardcover: 337
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(1980-04)
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32. Emily Dickinson and Audience | |
Hardcover: 288
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(1996-10-15)
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33. A Companion to Emily Dickinson (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) | |
Hardcover: 544
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(2008-03-03)
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34. Emily Dickinson:A Biography by Connie Ann Kirk | |
Hardcover: 216
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(2004-05-30)
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You'll wish the book was longer
The Definitive Young Adult Biography |
35. An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia | |
Hardcover: 416
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(1998-04-30)
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Skimpy, squeaky-clean orthodox, and a big disappointment. One would have expected, for example, many interesting photographs, illustrations, useful tables, maps, genealogies, discussionsof _many_ of her important poems, detailed and classified bibliographies of early editions, modern editions, biographies, criticism, etc. And one would have expected much more.After all, this book is supposed to be an 'Encyclopedia.' Unfortunately we get very little of the above.What we get is astandard 8vo-size volume (6.5 by 9.5 inches) of just 395 pages of bareand unadorned text.After a brief Preface, a Chronology, and a list of Abbreviations, 312 pages of articles follow.The articles varyfrom paragraph to essay-length, and the book is rounded out withtwo Appendices, an 18-page Bibliography (of which 16 pages are devotedto Critical Books, Articles, and Dissertations), an Index of Poems Cited, and a General Index. Interestingly, in a book already top-heavy with biographical entries, and that might have included so much else - Ipersonally expected to find many more discussions of individual poems,for example - it concludes with 9 pages 'About theContributors' - their affiliations, major publications, and interests. The articles are arranged alphabetically.Here is the entire crop for 'A' : "A narrow Fellow in the Grass" (P986); "After great pain a formal feeling comes -" (P341); Aldrich, Thomas Bailey; Ambiguity; American Dictionary of the English Language; Amherst; Amherst Academy; Amherst College; Anthon, Catherine (Scott) Turner (1831-1917); Aphorism;"Apparently with no surprise" (P1624); Asian Responses to Dickinson; The Atlantic Monthly, A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, andPolitics; Austin. So much for the letter 'A.'To properly evaluate the scope of thisbook and the quality of its articles (some of which read quite well), one would of course have to be a Dickinson scholar, which I'm not.I do note, however, the absence under 'A' of anentry on 'Animals,' which in view of the many animals we find inDickinson's poems seems very strange. I also note, on turning to the entry for 'Carlo,' Emily Dickinson's pet dog, the following statement: "He is the only animal in her entire corpus givenhuman emotion and intelligence" (p.41).This statement is utterly andcompletely false, and could easily be shown to be so, by, for example,an analysis of a poem such as "The waters chased him as he fled" (P1749).I've alsorun into other highly dubious statements in this book, particularlyones that seem determined at all costs to claim Dickinson for the Christian camp, whereas it seems perfectly evident to me that her mind was far too subtle to be contained by Christianity, or indeed by any official religion. This book is very much a product of the official world of Dickinson scholarship.Its orientation is squeaky-clean orthodox, and it has either rejected or distorted much that isn't to its taste.It will prove a handy (though misleading) reference work for students, and the few ED cultists who stumble upon it will no doubt approve of it. The book is bound in full cloth, stitched, and beautifully printed on excellent strong paper, but to me its contents came as a terrible disappointment.Gudrun Grabher's'The Emily Dickinson Handbook' (1998) turned out to be a far better book, a superb collection of articles from which I feel that I'm actually learning somethingabout Emily Dickinson.Some of its contributors are also found in the 'Encyclopedia,' but perhaps they weren't operating under quite the same constraints. ... Read more |
36. Emily Dickinson and the Life of Language: A Study in Symbolic Poetics by Emily Miller Budick | |
Hardcover: 240
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(1986-01)
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37. Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World | |
Hardcover: 40
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(2002-03-19)
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Beautiful words and pictures
For whom is this intended and what is it's purpose?
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A Brief Introduction to Emily Dickinson..... |
38. Emily Dickinson (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) | |
Hardcover: 231
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(2007-12)
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39. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr | |
Hardcover: 368
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(2004-04-30)
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Editorial Review Book Description In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Judith Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the successful gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience: love and hate, wickedness and virtue, death and immortality. Gardening, Farr demonstrates, was Dickinson's other vocation, more public than the making of poems but analogous and closely related to it. Over a third of Dickinson's poems and nearly half of her letters allude with passionate intensity to her favorite wildflowers, to traditional blooms like the daisy or gentian, and to the exotic gardenias and jasmines of her conservatory. Each flower was assigned specific connotations by the nineteenth century floral dictionaries she knew; thus, Dickinson's association of various flowers with friends, family, and lovers, like the tropes and scenarios presented in her poems, establishes her participation in the literary and painterly culture of her day. A chapter, "Gardening with Emily Dickinson" by Louise Carter, cites family letters and memoirs to conjecture the kinds of flowers contained in the poet's indoor and outdoor gardens. Carter hypothesizes Dickinson's methods of gardening, explaining how one might grow her flowers today. Beautifully illustrated and written with verve, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson will provide pleasure and insight to a wide audience of scholars, admirers of Dickinson's poetry, and garden lovers everywhere. Customer Reviews (2)
"Beauty crowds me till I die" Yet few investigators have the quaint, informed pique as the highly admired Dickinson scholar, Judith Farr.This book THE GARDENS OF EMILY DICKINSON maintains the level of biographic study that began with her THE PASSION OF EMILY DICKINSON in 1994 and continued with the elegant, aptly eccentric epistolary novel I NEVER CAME TO YOU IN WHITE in 1996. Like the previous books, Farr does not confine her writing to academia (though she obviously has consumed every bit of available information on her subject and footnoted these books extensively): Farr prefers to open doors and windows of imagination to make the factual data supplied have a semblance to the radiance of Dickinson's gifts to posterity. During Emily Dickinson's lifetime (1830 - 1886) the poet was better know for her commitment to the oh-so-proper Victorian art of gardening. Books on Botany from that period held dominion over reading tables and bookshelves and Dickinson was as astute a garden scholar as the best of them. Flowers are frequently referenced in her poetry, her letters, her life, and Farr has used this other half of Dickinson's life as a means to explore the meanings of her poems.'Flowers - Well - if anybody/Can extasy define -/Half a transport - half a trouble -/With which flowers humble men:...'She divides her writings into chapters 'Gardening in Eden' (the more spiritual aspect of the garden), 'The Woodland Garden' (the exploration of her natural garden on the grounds of the Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts), 'The Enclosed Garden' (the conservatory where exotic looms were coddled), and 'The Garden in the Brain'.In each of these chapters Farr takes almost every reference to flowers in Dickinson's poems and discusses their significance both herbally and philosophically and passionately.The characters that played significant roles in Dickinson's odd life are all addressed (Susan Dickinson, Bowles, Higginson, etc) by referencing letters to and poems about each , and each bit of evidence breathes floral dimensions.Almost as an intermission to this theatrical diversion, Farr has placed a chapter by Louise Carter "Gardening with Emily Dickinson" which is well written and serves to ground the ongoing growing tales of the Belle of Amherst with a sophisticated diversion on the techniques of the Victorian Gardener - a chapter which could easily find its way into all Garden books!And aptly, in a manner that would no doubt find Dickinson's approval, Farr ends her book with an Epilogue, which indeed places all of her information in perspective and is enlightening to both the scholar and the occasional reader of the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.Judith Farr is a solid scholar, a fine writer, and if at times she cannot resist the tendency to 'personalize' her data, then that is merely her style and for this reader is only additive.The preface page of her book quotes the words of Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "There is no conceivable/beauty of blossom/so beautiful as words -/none so graceful,/none so perfumed."This lovely thought is a fitting introduction to the writing of Judith Farr, too. I wonder which aspect of Emily Dickinson she will explore next....
Another Tour de Force from Judith Farr |
40. Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing (Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism) by Marta L. Werner | |
Hardcover: 328
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(1996-02-15)
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