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Emily Dickinson's Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland

Emily Dickinson's Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland( )
Author: Dickinson, Emily
Editor: Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen
ISBN:978-0-674-96811-0
Publication Date:Jan 1951
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $104.00
Book Description:

The ninety-three letters--and the poems, over thirty in all, which she included in the letters or sent in place of them--written by Emily Dickinson to her dear friends the Hollands, are intimate, spontaneous, and at the same time as characteristically poetic as everything Emily ever wrote or said. They span the major portion of Emily's adult life, from her twenties to her death. A detailed study of handwriting and paper has made possible a new historical approach to her life, her...
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Book Details
Pages:252
Detailed Subjects: Literary Collections / Letters
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:1.465 Pounds
Author Biography
Dickinson, Emily (Author)
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. Although one of America's most acclaimed poets, the bulk of her work was not published until well after her death on May 15, 1886. The few poems published in her lifetime were not received with any great fanfare. After her death, Dickinson's sister Lavinia found over 1,700 poems Emily had written and stashed away in a drawer -- the accumulation of a life's obsession with words. Critics have agreed that Dickinson's poetry was well ahead of its time. Today she is considered one of the best poets of the English language.

Except for a year spent at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Dickinson spent her entire life in the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts. She never married and began to withdraw from society, eventually becoming a recluse.

Dickinson's poetry engages the reader and requires his or her participation. Full of highly charged metaphors, her free verse and choice of words are best understood when read aloud. Dickinson's punctuation and capitalization, not orthodox by Victorian standards and called "spasmodic" by her critics, give greater emphasis to her meanings.

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