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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 M

Author

Farr, Judith

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674656659

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Art, History