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- The Lady in White
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
To this day, Emily Dickinson remains a beloved and enigmatic figure in American poetry. This “lady in white,” who shut herself away from the world and found solace alone with her words, has since her death been viewed primarily through the lens of her poetry, which afforded her beauty and hope amid the agony and loneliness of her life.
As a reclusive writer himself, contemporary French author Christian Bobin felt a kindred tie to the poet, and his book The Lady in White honors Dickinson in the form of a brief, poetically imagined account of her life and the work that she gave the world. This fresh and personal interpretation of Dickinson’s life leaves one with an impression of knowing Dickinson both through her poetry, as recalled by Bobin, and as he senses the person she was through her work and the sparse facts we have about her life.
Table of Contents
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- The footbridge of life creaked...
- pp. 10-11
- From one side, the house where...
- pp. 18-19
- On the farm where she grew up...
- pp. 20-21
- Melancholy mothers can never be...
- pp. 22-23
- Whenever a young man showed an...
- pp. 25-26
- Emily’s time at Amherst Academy...
- pp. 33-34
- Poetry is more than just...
- pp. 37-38
- A confrontation with the icy god...
- pp. 53-54
- To have a soul is to...
- pp. 60-61
- We do not choose our savior...
- pp. 64-65
- “Open the door, open the door...
- pp. 78-79
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803266902
Related ISBN(s)
9780803245655
MARC Record
OCLC
892430106
Pages
90
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-10
Language
English
Open Access
No