Essay on emily dickinson biography book
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Mon Emily Dickinson
Not one reviewer here says anything along the lines of, "Um, guys – what just happened?"
Not one reader I could find rated it lower than 3 stars – and the vast majority of reviewers give it four or five, and swoon in their reviews.
So I guess it's just me.
I'm the dork who feels as if I stumbled into someone else's drug trip when I thought I was supposed to be reading a book about a poet and her work.
I thought I was reasonably literate (for a civilian), but reading this book felt like having books flung at my head by an invisible assailant.
If you know me, you know I'm all about the Post-Its when I read. And my library copy of My Emily Dickinson is stuck with its fair share – but all the passages I found worth hanging onto are quotations from other people's works.
The only bits I marked that Susan Howe actually wrote are things I wanted to mention here because I disagree with them strenuously. "Dickinson means this to be an ugly verse," Howe says at one point, because apparently being a poet herself means having permission to speak on behalf of a long-dead writer. (Hint: NO.)
And "Elizabeth Barrett Browning...failed as a poet herself."
Excuse me? EBB wrote poems even non-poetry lovers can a
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Emily Dickinson Story - Transfer of Totality, Study Guides & Essays - GradeSaver
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Story of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson’s sure has on all occasions fascinated mass, even previously she was famous entertain her 1 She
was born flash Amherst, Colony, a run down farming population, on Dec 10, 1830, to Prince and
Emily Norcross Poet. Edward Poet was a well-respected counsel and minister, descended
stick up a conspicuous Amherst family; his paterfamilias was
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Martha Ackmann
Critical Acclaim
“The Handbook makes a hugely significant contribution to the field and will, I am sure, be an invaluable tool for students, libraries, and scholars…. The essays are without exception informed, informative, concise, and (given the complexity of their subject matter) very readable. The fact that they are written by the leading scholars of the day makes the collection as a whole all the more authoritative.”
—Domhnall Mitchell, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“I can’t recommend it too highly for anyone who wants a one volume Dickinson reference. The scholarship is sound and up to date; the book is very accessible and a delight to read. It can only enhance one’s appreciation and enjoyment of the poems and de-mystifies/sets the record straight in so many key areas related to this major American poet.”
—Margaret Langstaff, Book Critic
“Distinguished biographer Richard Sewall provides a brief introduction on "The Continuing Presence of Emily Dickinson." He points the book in its ultimate direction by stating, "as with the greatest, the strangeness never wears off. Shakespeare is still a mystery, and so is Dickinson. We still argue about Hamlet, and those poems will never let us rest." Martha Ackmann opens the