Open Me Carefully

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081950033X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Me Carefully written by Emily Dickinson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. Praise for Open Me Carefully “With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review

Author : Martha Nell Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292787545
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rowing in Eden written by Martha Nell Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and literary scholars alike have puzzled over this paradox of wanting to communicate widely and yet apparently refusing to publish. In this pathbreaking study, Martha Nell Smith unravels the paradox by boldly recasting two of the oldest and still most frequently asked questions about Emily Dickinson: Why didn't she publish more poems while she was alive? and Who was her most important contemporary audience? Regarding the question of publication, Smith urges a reconception of the act of publication itself. She argues that Dickinson did publish her work in letters and in forty manuscript books that circulated among a cultured network of correspondents, most important of whom was her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. Rather than considering this material unpublished because unprinted, Smith views its alternative publication as a conscious strategy on the poet's part, a daring poetic experiment that also included Dickinson's unusual punctuation, line breaks, stanza divisions, calligraphic orthography, and bookmaking—all the characteristics that later editors tried to standardize or eliminate in preparing the poems for printing. Dickinson's relationship with her most important reader, Sue Dickinson, has also been lost or distorted by multiple levels of censorship, Smith finds. Emphasizing the poet-sustaining aspects of the passionate bonds between the two women, Smith shows that their relationship was both textual and sexual. Based on study of the actual holograph poems, Smith reveals the extent of Sue Dickinson's collaboration in the production of poems, most notably "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers." This finding will surely challenge the popular conception of the isolated, withdrawn Emily Dickinson. Well-versed in poststructuralist, feminist, and new textual criticism, Rowing in Eden uncovers the process by which the conventional portrait of Emily Dickinson was drawn and offers readers a chance to go back to original letters and poems and look at the poet and her work through new eyes. It will be of great interest to a wide audience in literary and feminist studies.

Author : Nick Bromley
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763661635
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Very Carefully written by Nick Bromley and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reading of a story is interrupted by a crocodile falling into the book.

Author : Jane Donahue Eberwein
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558499010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters written by Jane Donahue Eberwein and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays explore a brilliant poet's written correspondence

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674250703
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters written by Emily Dickinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters written by British poet Emily Dickinson.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson written by Emily Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I, "Life" (p.1-105) compiled from unpublished letters and personal recollections; cf. compilers preface.

Author : Richard Benson Sewall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674530805
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Emily Dickinson written by Richard Benson Sewall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massively detailed, illustrated biography of Emily Dickinson.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060887915
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Dickinson written by Emily Dickinson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche.... Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely private; like Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she is the great poet of inwardness, of the indefinable region of the soul in which we are, in a sense, all alone.

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307597040
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emily Dickinson: Letters written by Emily Dickinson and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the remarkable letters of Emily Dickinson in an elegant Pocket Poet edition. The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson’s poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters presented here provides a fuller picture of the eccentric recluse of legend, showing how immersed in life she was: we see her tending her garden; baking bread; marking the marriages, births, and deaths of those she loved; reaching out for intellectual companionship; and confessing her personal joys and sorrows. These letters, invaluable for the light they shed on their author, are, as well, a pure pleasure to read.

Author : Martha Nell Smith
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405147200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emily Dickinson written by Martha Nell Smith and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Dickinson, A User’s Guide presents a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America’s most widely admired woman poet Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through her manuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digital Dickinson editions published since 1994 The User’s Guide is a new kind of book for a new era of reading Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work, and her receptions among readers Is the only book that presents new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011 Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between the reader’s sense of her life and her work Draws on prominent critical views from the past century, including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological, feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings