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Book Title
The Passion of Emily Dickinson
Publication Name
Passion of Emily Dickinson
Title
The Passion of Emily Dickinson
Author
Judith Farr
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0674656660
EAN
9780674656666
ISBN
9780674656666
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Genre
Literary Criticism
Release Date
15/07/1998
Release Year
1998
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.1in
Item Length
0.9in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Item Width
0.6in
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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"How tame and manageable are the emotions of our bards, how placid and literary their allusions!" complained essayist T. W. Higginson in the Atlantic Monthly in 1870. "The American poet of passion is yet to come." He was, of course, unaware of the great erotic love poems such as "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "Struck was I, nor yet by Lightning" being privately written by his reclusive friend Emily Dickinson. In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, and deciphers their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of the day. In The Passion of Emily Dickinson the poet emerges, not as a cryptic proto-modern or a victim of female repression, but as a cultivated mid-Victorian in whom the romanticism of Emerson and the American landscape painters found bold expression. Dickinson wrote two distinct cycles of love poetry, argues Farr, one for her sister-in-law Sue and one for the mysterious "Master," here convincingly identified as Samuel Bowles, a friend of the family. For each of these intimates, Dickinson crafted personalized metaphoric codes drawn from her reading. Calling books her "Kinsmen of the Shelf," she refracted elements of Jane Eyre , Antony and Cleopatra , Tennyson's Maud , De Quincey's Confessions , and key biblical passages into her writing. And, to a previously unexplored degree, Dickinson also quoted the strategies and subject matter of popular Hudson River, Luminist, and Pre-Raphaelite paintings, notably Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life and Frederic Edwin Church's Heart of the Andes . Involved in the delicate process of both expressing and disguising her passion, Dickinson incorporated these sources in an original and sophisticated manner. Farr's superb readings of the poems and letters call on neglected archival material and on magazines, books, and paintings owned by the Dickinsons. Viewed as part of a finely articulated tradition of Victorian iconography, Dickinson's interest in the fate of the soul after death, her seclusion, her fascination with landscape's mystical content, her quest for honor and immortality through art, and most of all her very human passions become less enigmatic. Farr tells the story of a poet and her time.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674656660
ISBN-13
9780674656666
eBay Product ID (ePID)
377769

Product Key Features

Author
Judith Farr
Publication Name
Passion of Emily Dickinson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz

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Well-argued and eloquently written...Farr's study contributes essential cultural and historical contexts and offers superb readings of Dickinson's letters and lyrics. For these reasons, The Passion of Emily Dickinson enriches our understanding of one of the greatest and most enigmatic of American poets., I admire [the book's] even temperament'e¦Farr admirably avoids ideological rigidity, even while acknowledging, and adopting, strengihs of particular advocates. Her relating Dickinson to nineteenth-century American art is a major contribution., Farr has opened new ground in our understanding of the poetry. I find entirely convincing her consideration of the relationships with Hudson River and Luminist painting in the period.
Table of Content
1. The Hidden Face 2. Solitary Mornings on the Sea 3. The Narrative of Sue 4. The Narrative of Master 5. A Vision of Forms 6. Art as Life Abbreviations Appendix: Poems for Sue and Poems for Master Notes Acknowledgments Index of First Lines Index
Copyright Date
1992
Topic
Women, Literary, American / General, Poetry
Dewey Decimal
811/.4
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism

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