This was a poet, a critical biography of Emily Dickinson. / By George Frisbie Whicher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whicher, George F. (George Frisbie), 1889-1954.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Ann Arbor paperbacks ; AA12.

Ann Arbor paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.

Dickinson, Emily.

Poets, American--19th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Capps, Jack L. (autograph) (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 337 pages, 1 unnumbered page : map ; 21 cm.

Edition:

[First edition as an Ann Arbor paperback.].

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [1957]

Contents:

Part One: The Little Tippler. The village; Family portraits; Amherst Academy; Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

Part Two: Tutors and Shepherds: Later Years. An amethyst remembrance; Rowing in Eden; Literary friends; Society in solitude

Part Three: The Sources of Style. Seeing New Englandly; American humor; Emerson; Books and reading

Part Four: Poetry as Playmate. Thoughts in the gown; Minims of nature; The leaf at love turned back; The landscape of the soul.

Notes:

"Ann Arbor Paperbacks."

"Copyright 1938 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Reprinted by special arrangement."

"Cover design by George Lenox."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and index.

Local Notes:

Capps Dickinson Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Brigadier General Jack L. Capps.

Capps Dickinson Collection copy has autograph of J. Capps.

Capps Dickinson Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

Capps Dickinson Collection copy has 4 x 9 cm. card "Thanks a lot. Bruce" laid in.

OCLC:

272006