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Title: The Passion of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr ISBN: 0-674-65666-0 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Interpretation
Comment: This is one of the better books of critical interpretation of Emily Dickinson. Most of the books about her apart from biographies are so academic they have little appeal to the general reader. This one although long, does not go into literary criticism that becomes incomprehensible. Generally, it is a sensible interpretation of the meaning of Dickinson's poems through paintings of the time. Also considered are some of the references in the poems to popular Victorian literature. Poems themselves although they are emotion, are also in some sense philosophy. So, in this book, the author's exploration of general thought on a topic and then Dickinson's way of exploring it are fascinating. Farr covers some topics that are controversial here like the extent of Dickinson's relationship with Sue Gilbert Dickinson or the mystery of the identity of ''Master''. Whatever anyone's view of these topics, reading this book just to read this author's take on them is silly. This book is worthwhile to read for many other reasons. Fifty times over, this book is worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: And all my House aglow (638)
Comment: Thirty years ago, I read ED in school, a few poems chosen for high school students, scrubbed by the sensibilities of that time and rural place. My remembered impression was of a strange recluse who wrote of flowers and death. On word of friends, I came to remake her acquaintance, and found passion, unconventional explorations, and wide knowledge of her moment. That a woman so contained in space should flow out through time touches and pauses me. I should like to have known her, to have had her as my friend (by email, or chat?), and been informed of her wider, richer world distilled ever smaller until its circumference reduced me, too; a term between eternity and immortality (ED, you amaze).
Judith Farr has wrought a miracle in bringing ED to me so compellingly (thank you, Judith).
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Title: The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr, Louise Carter ISBN: 0674012933 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The World of Emily Dickinson by Polly Longsworth ISBN: 0393316564 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0316184136 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 January, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall ISBN: 0674530802 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: My Wars Are Laid Away in Books : The Life of Emily Dickinson by ALFRED HABEGGER ISBN: 0812966015 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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