Forged in the Heart. Nine Muses of Emily Dickinson

This book pictorially associates Emily Dickinson's poetic creativity with timelines of her family, friends, and romantic interests. The author argues that Emily had muses, both male and female, and that her poems reflect the joys and pains she experienced as she separated from each muse, only to meet a new one. In the middle chapter, Emily speaks for herself through selections her poetry, with a few comments offered by the author. In a concluding chapter, the author compares her work...
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This book pictorially associates Emily Dickinson's poetic creativity with timelines of her family, friends, and romantic interests. The author argues that Emily had muses, both male and female, and that her poems reflect the joys and pains she experienced as she separated from each muse, only to meet a new one. In the middle chapter, Emily speaks for herself through selections her poetry, with a few comments offered by the author. In a concluding chapter, the author compares her work to poems of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He suggests that, just has been suggested for Walt Whitman, Emily's more rapturous poems indicate that she experienced a state of cosmic consciousness (DR. R.M. Burke's definition). This is a more satisfactory explanation than the hypothesis that she experienced mild epilepsy. The book concludes with a list of works published during her lifetime and a facsimile of her first known published work.