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Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters

by Emily Dickinson

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Publisher Comments:

When the complete Letters of Emily Dickinsonappeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the Los Angeles Times, saying "Themissives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America literature,women's experience in the ninteenth century, and literature in general.

Synopsis:

The famous American poet as a person and a literary figure is seen through sensitive and expressive correspondence that spans her life from childhood to maturity.

Synopsis:

This one-volume selection is at last available in paperback. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of American literature, women's experience in the nineteenth century, and literature in general.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note

Introduction

PART I: 1842-1846
"...the Hens lay finely..."

PART II: 1847-1848
"I am really at Mt Holyoke..."

PART III: 1849-1850
"Amherst is alive with fun this winter..."

PART IV: 1851-1854
"...we do not have much poetry, father having made up his mind
that its pretty much all real life."

PART V: 1855-1857
"To live, and die, and mount again in triumphant body...
is no schoolboy's theme!"

PART VI: 1858-1861
"Much has occurred...so much that I stagger as I write,
in its sharp remembrance."

PART VII: 1862-1865
"Perhaps you smile at me. I could not stop for that-
My Business is Circumference."

PART VIII: 1866-1869
"A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is
the mind alone without corporeal friend."

PART IX: 1870-1874
"I find ecstasy in living the mere sense of living is joy enough."

PART X: 1875-1879
"Nature is a Haunted House but Art -
a House that tries to be haunted."

PART XI: 1880-1883
"I hesitate which word to take, as I can take but few and
each must be the chiefest..."

PART XII: 1884-1886
"...a Letter is a joy of Earth it is denied the Gods."

Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Recipients of Letters and
of Persons Mentioned in Them

Index

Product Details

ISBN:
9780674250703
Subtitle:
Selected Letters
Editor:
Johnson, Thomas J.
Editor:
Johnson, Thomas H.
Author:
Johnson, Thomas H.
Author:
Dickinson, Emily
Publisher:
Belknap Press
Location:
Cambridge, Mass. :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Letters
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Dickinson, emily, 1830-1886
Subject:
Poets, American
Subject:
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Subject:
General Literary Criticism & Collections
Subject:
American
Subject:
Biography-Literary
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
D132
Publication Date:
January 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
none
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.125 in 1.22 lb

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