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Essential Dickinson Audio Book
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Essential Dickinson
Author:
Emily Dickinson
Performer: Julie Harris
This beautifully read poetry and the luminous, fascinating letters of the Belle of Amherst give us a rich portrait of the brilliant poet. Hear the rapture and despair, the beautiful and inventive language of this eloquent writer. "One can hear the affinity Harris had for the material in her calm, alluring, and focused performance."—AudioFile
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Publish Date: 06/27/2006
ISBN: 9780061124211
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Synopsis:
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Joyce Carol Oates's personal favorites among Emily Dickinson's poems, including both the much-anthologized and the more obscure. In her introduction, Oates states, "Dickinson is one of very few poets whose work repays countless readings, through a lifetime."
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Author Bio:
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Dickinson lived all her life in Amherst, in a brick mansion set in spacious grounds on the town's main street. She attended the Mount Female Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in a neighboring town, but suffered so badly from homesickness that she returned home after a year. Her life was intensely private. She seldom left her house and had few visitors: most of her contact with the outside world was through her letter-writing. In Amherst, she was greatly loved, but considered a harmless eccentric spinster. She devoted herself to the care of her aged parents as well as to cooking, gardening, and other domestic pursuits--and, of course, to her poems, only 10 of which were published in her lifetime. Her family was stunned to find more than 1,700 more after her death, bound by hand into small booklets. Her poetry is still startling today, remarkable for its groundbreaking innovations in meter and form, its hauntingly original imagery, and its blunt, honest depiction of loneliness and of the complex inner world of a remarkable sensibility.
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