The Life of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)

from desultory

Still going through this one, but I don't see how it could be better. Strange approach - first half of the book is only indirectly about Emily, as it studies her family members first, but it works. She is, of course, the stereotypical stay-at-home poetess, but it seems that nothing could have mad...

from kcshankd

750 pages later and we are left wondering at the stranger upstairs, listening through the door, slightly ajar. The biographer approaches Dickinson through time and place, presenting a thorough image of mid 19th Century Amherst, Mass, and the Dickinson family. We then track Emily through her corre...

from samfsmith

Impressive and deeply detailed, this biography approaches Emily Dickinson's life on a slant, much as she presented her own life to her friends and family in her letters. Most o the biography centers on Dikinson's friends and family and the letters and poems that she wrote them. It will shatter yo...

from desultory

Still going through this one, but I don't see how it could be better. Strange approach - first half of the book is only indirectly about Emily, as it studies her family members first, but it works. She is, of course, the stereotypical stay-at-home poetess, but it seems that nothing could have mad...

from kcshankd

750 pages later and we are left wondering at the stranger upstairs, listening through the door, slightly ajar. The biographer approaches Dickinson through time and place, presenting a thorough image of mid 19th Century Amherst, Mass, and the Dickinson family. We then track Emily through her corre...