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The image is so well known it is practically iconic: The reclusive poet, feminine and fragile, weaving verse of beguiling complexity from the room in which she kept herself sequestered from the world. The Belle of Amherst, the distinctive American voice, the singer of the soul's mysteries: Emily Dickinson. Yet that image scarcely captures the fullness and vitality of Dickinson's life, most notably her many connections-to family, to friends, to correspondents, to the literary tastemakers of her day, even to the unnamed, and perhaps unknowable, "Master" to whom she addressed three of her most breathtaking works of prose. Through an exploration of a relatively small group of items from Dickinson's vast literary remains, this volume-an accompaniment to an exhibition on Dickinson mounted at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York-demonstrates the complex ways in which these often humble objects came into conversation with other people, places, and events in the poet's life. Seeing the network of connections and influences that shaped Dickinson's life presents us with a different understanding of this most enigmatic yet elegiac poet in American letters, and allows us more fully to appreciate both her uniqueness and her humanity. The materials collected here make clear that the story of Dickinson's manuscripts, her life, and her work is still unfolding. While the image of Dickinson as the reclusive poet dressed only in white remains a popular myth, details of Dickinson's life continue to emerge. Several items included both in the exhibit and in this volume were not known to exist until the present century. The scrap of biographical intelligence recorded by Sarah Tuthill in a Mount Holyoke catalogue, or the concern about Dickinson's salvation expressed by Abby Wood in a private letter to Abiah Root, were acquired by Amherst College in the last fifteen years. What additional pieces of evidence remain to be uncovered and identified in the attics and basements of New England? Published to accompany The Morgan Library & Museum's pathbreaking exhibit I'm Nobody! Who are You? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson-part of a series of exhibits at the Morgan celebrating and exploring the creative lives of significant women authors-The Networked Recluse offers the reader an account of the exhibit itself, together with a series of contributions by curators, scholars of Dickinson, and poets whose own work her words have influenced.

Dickinson, Emily, --- Biography: general --- Biography: literary --- Poetry --- Dickinson, Emily; 1830-1886; Exhibitions; Manuscripts; Facsimiles --- Dickinson, Emily --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili,

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How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in 1886, decisions about what it was that Dickinson wrote have been left to the editors, publishers, and critics who have brought Dickinson's work into public view. The familiar letters, notes on advertising fliers, verses on split-open envelopes, and collections of verses on personal stationery tied together with string have become the Dickinson poems celebrated since her death as exemplary lyrics. Jackson makes the larger argument that the century and a half spanning the circulation of Dickinson's work tells the story of a shift in the publication, consumption, and interpretation of lyric poetry. This shift took the form of what this book calls the "lyricization of poetry," a set of print and pedagogical practices that collapsed the variety of poetic genres into lyric as a synonym for poetry. Featuring many new illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a major contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It maps out the future for new work in historical poetics and lyric theory.

Women and literature --- Lyric poetry --- Poetics --- Poetry --- History --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Dickinson, Emily --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Technique. --- Electronic books --- Dickinson, Emily - réception --- Dickinson, Emily - 1830-1886 --- Theory, etc.

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From the award-winning author of Poe the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind "The Mystery of Marie Roget" comes a compelling argument for the identity of Emily Dickinson’s true love Proud of my broken heart Since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I Did not feel till thee . . . Those words were written by Emily Dickinson to a married man. Who was he? For a century or more the identity of Emily Dickinson’s mysterious “Master” has been eagerly sought, especially since three letters from her to him were found and published in 1955. In Emily Dickinson in Love, John Evangelist Walsh provides the first book-length treatment of this fascinating subject, offering a solution based wholly on documented facts and the poet’s own writings. Crafting the affair as a love story of rare appeal, and writing with exquisite attention to detail, in Part I Walsh reveals and meticulously proves the Master to be Otis Lord, a friend of the poet’s father and a man of some reputation in law and politics. Part II portrays the full dimensions of their thirty-year romance, most of it clandestine, including a series of secret meetings in Boston. After uncovering and confirming the Master’s identity, Walsh fits that information into known events of Emily’s life to make sense of facts long known but little understood—Emily’s decision to dress always in white, for instance, or her extreme withdrawal from a normal existence when she had previously been an active, outgoing friend to many men and women. In a lengthy section of Notes and Sources, Walsh presents his proofs in abundant detail, demonstrating that the evidence favors one man so irresistibly that there is left no room for doubt. Each reader will decide if he has truly succeeded in making the case for Otis Lord.

Poets, American --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Lord, Otis P. --- Dickinson, Emily --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili, --- Family. --- Relations with women. --- Relations with men.

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Literature and society --- History --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Criticism and interpetation. --- Dickinson, Emily --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This 2007 introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and work in the historical context of the Civil War, the suffrage movement, and the rapid industrialisation of the United States. Wendy Martin explores the ways in which Dickinson's personal struggles with romantic love, religious faith, friendship and community shape her poetry. The complex publication history of her works, as well as their reception, is teased out, and a guide to further reading is included. Dickinson emerges not only as one of America's finest poets, but also as a fiercely independent intellect and an original talent writing poetry far ahead of her time.

Dickinson, Emily --- Women poets, American --- American women poets --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature