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Emily Dickinson / by Cynthia Griffin Wolff.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS1541.Z5 W58 1986
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LIBRA - Rare PS1541.Z5 W58 1986 Capps Dickinson copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolff, Cynthia Griffin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Capps, Jack L. (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 641 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1986.
- Summary:
- A biography of the New England poet describing her childhood, schooling, family relationships, and presenting an interpretative study of her work.
- Contents:
- The Oven Bird
- My Father's House
- Samuel and Edward: The Last Jerusalem
- Mother and Father: The Fall into Language
- School: Faith and the Argument from Design
- The 1850s: Apprenticeship and Vocation
- Interlude: Context and Subject
- Pugilist and Poet
- The Voice
- The Poet's Problem with a "Woman's Place"
- The Voice of the Child
- The "Wifes" Voice
- The Proleptic Voice
- The Possibilities for Publication
- The Wrestle for Dominion: God's "Supernatural" Defined
- The Ravishment of Faith
- "Nature" Reviewed
- A New Calendar of Signs
- The Masks of Divinity and the Coordinates of Heaven
- Experiment
- Love and the Love Poetry
- The Language of Love
- Love in the Real World
- At the Conclusion Was the Word
- The Razor's Edge: Some Speciment Poems
- Adieu
- The Cosmos as Mirror
- Can You Make a World Aknew with Words?
- Requiem
- One of the Ones that Midas Touched.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-605) and indexes.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Brigadier General Jack L. Capps.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy has dustjacket.
- ISBN:
- 0394544188
- 9780394544182
- OCLC:
- 14068613
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