Informationen zum Autor Cynthia Griffin Wolff holds the Class of 1922 Professorship of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton and Samuel Richardson and the Eighteenth Century Puritan Character. Klappentext The celebrated biographer of Edith Wharton is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between Emily Dickinson's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of her poems. 23 photos. Zusammenfassung Cynthia Griffin Wolff's brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between her life and her poetry. It is a vivid portrait of the poet and her times as well as a fascinating interpretive study of the poems that will enable every reader to approach them with new understanding and delight. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Prologue: The Oven Bird My Fathers House * Samuel and Edward: The Last Jerusalem * Mother and Father: The Fall into Language * School: Faith and the Argument from Design * The 1850s: Apprenticeship and Vocation * Interlude: Context and Subject Pugilist And Poet * The Voice * The Wrestle for Dominion: Gods Supernatural Redefined * Love and the Love Poetry * The Razors Edge: Some Specimen Poems Adieu * The Cosmos as Mirror * Can You Make a World Anew with Words? * Requiem * One of the Ones that Midas Touched

Autorentext
Cynthia Griffin Wolff holds the Class of 1922 Professorship of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton and Samuel Richardson and the Eighteenth Century Puritan Character.

Klappentext

The celebrated biographer of Edith Wharton is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between Emily Dickinson's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of her poems. 23 photos.

Zusammenfassung
Cynthia Griffin Wolff's brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between her life and her poetry. It is a vivid portrait of the poet and her times as well as a fascinating interpretive study of the poems that will enable every reader to approach them with new understanding and delight.

Inhalt

• Prologue: The Oven Bird My Fathers House * Samuel and Edward: The Last Jerusalem * Mother and Father: The Fall into Language * School: Faith and the Argument from Design * The 1850s: Apprenticeship and Vocation * Interlude: Context and Subject Pugilist And Poet * The Voice * The Wrestle for Dominion: Gods Supernatural Redefined * Love and the Love Poetry * The Razors Edge: Some Specimen Poems Adieu * The Cosmos as Mirror * Can You Make a World Anew with Words? * Requiem * One of the Ones that Midas Touched