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THE PASSION OF EMILY DICKINSON
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| By: |
Judith Farr |
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Paperback |
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£27.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674656660 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674656666 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 September, 1994 |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
This text explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture and dedication to art that characterizes the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and attempts to decipher their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of her time. |
| Synopsis: |
"How tame and manageable are the emotions of our bards, how placid and literary their allusions!" complained essayist T. W. Higginson in the Atlantic Monthly in 1870. "The American poet of passion is yet to come." He was, of course, unaware of the great erotic love poems such as "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "Struck was I, nor yet by Lightning" being privately written by his reclusive friend Emily Dickinson. In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, and deciphers their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of the day. In The Passion of Emily Dickinson the poet emerges, not as a cryptic proto-modern or a victim of female repression, but as a cultivated mid-Victorian in whom the romanticism of Emerson and the American landscape painters found bold expression. Dickinson wrote two distinct cycles of love poetry, argues Farr, one for her sister-in-law Sue and one for the mysterious "Master, " here convincingly identified as Samuel Bowles, a friend of the family. For each of these intimates, Dickinson crafted personalized metaphoric codes drawn from her reading. Calling books her "Kinsmen of the Shelf, " she refracted elements of Jane Eyre, Antony and Cleopatra, Tennyson's Maud, De Quincey's Confessions, and key biblical passages into her writing. And, to a previously unexplored degree, Dickinson also quoted the strategies and subjec matter of popular Hudson River, Luminist, and Pre-Raphaelite paintings, notably Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life and Frederic Edwin Church's Heart of the Andes. Involved in the delicateprocess of both expressing and disguising her passion, Dickinson incorporated these sources in an original and sophisticated manner. Farr's superb readings of the poems and letters call on neglected archival material and on magazines, books, and paintings owned by the Dickinsons. Viewe |
| Illustrations: |
8 color illustrations in an 8 page insert plus 9 halftones scattered |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
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Returnable |
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