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Briefly looks at the poet's life, describes the themes, style, and reception of her poetry, and inclused a selection of the poems
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Christopher Benfey is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and the author of the award-winning book A Summer of Hummingbirds. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and the New York Review of Books. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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YA This well-presented and readable addition to the books on Emily Dickinson debunks the previously accepted view of Emily's father ``as a tyrannical Puritan who blighted his daughter's life'' and the ``sentimentalized view of her that is largely traceable to her niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi.'' In addition it wisely points out that ``a subtle sexism has focused our attention on the men in Dickinson's life'' and notes that ``we have hardly taken the same care with the suspected lovers of Walt Whitman, Henry James or Edgar Allan Poe.'' Rather than retracing many of the Dickinson myths, Benfey laces ample photographs and the poet's own words together with information about the influences that nature, her family, and the Civil War had upon her and her writing. Not a biography of the woman as much as a study of the poet, this introduction to her will be enjoyed by students looking to discover the reason behind Dickinson's style and words. It will not be useful for research, however, since the only index is by first line of her poetry. Even without this research capability, it will probably get more use than the scholarly but dry Emily Dickinson (Pantheon, 1986) by Helen McNeil, which does have an extensive index. Carolyn Praytor Boyd, Episcopal High School, Bellaire
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- PublisherGeorge Braziller Inc.
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0807611506
- ISBN 13 9780807611500
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- Number of pages141
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