2001, ISBN: 9780838638873

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New. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready" and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days alm… Mehr…

New. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, &quot;All things are ready&quot; and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely &quot;at home&quot; (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson's life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified &quot;Master,&quot; and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinson's inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render a concise and vivid portrait of American literature's most enigmatic figure., 6, New York: Penguin Press, 2008. Hardcover. New/New. New, May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. A Surprising And Scandalous Story Of How The Interaction Within A Group Of Exceptional And Uniquely Talented Characters Shaped And Changed American Thought At The Close Of The Civil War, The United States Took A Deep Breath To Lick Wounds And Consider The Damage Done. A Summer Of Hummingbirds Reveals How, At That Tender Moment, The Lives Of Some Of Our Most Noted Writers, Poets, And Artists-Including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, And Martin Johnson Heade-Intersected To Make Sense Of It All. Renowned Critic Christopher Benfey Maps The Intricate Web Of Friendship, Family, And Romance That Connects These Larger Than Life Personalities To One Another, And In Doing So Discovers A Unique Moment In The Development Of American Character. In This Meticulously Researched And Creatively Imagined Work, Benfey Takes The Seemingly Arbitrary Image Of The Hummingbird And Traces Its "Route Of Evanescence" As It Travels In Circles To And From The Creative Wellsprings Of The Age: From The Naturalist Writings Of Abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson To The Poems Of His Wayward Pupil Emily Dickinson; Into The Mind Of Henry Ward Beecher And Within The Writings And Paintings Of His Famous Sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Summer Of Hummingbirds Unveils How, Through The Art Of These Great Thinkers, The Hummingbird Became The Symbol Of An Era, An Image Through Which They Could Explore Their Controversial (And Often Contradictory) Ideas Of Nature, Religion, Sexuality, Family, Time, Exoticism, And Beauty. Benfey's Complex Tale Of Interconnection Comes To An Apex In Amherst, Massachusetts, During The Summer Of 1882, A Time When Loyalties Were Betrayed And Thoughts Exchanged With The Speed Of A Hummingbird's Wings. Here In The Wake Of The Very Public Henry Ward Beecher And Elizabeth Tilton Sex Scandal, Mabel Loomis Todd-The Young And Beautiful Protzgze To The Hummingbird Painter Martin Johnson Heade-Begins An Affair With Austin Dickinson And Leaves Her Mentor Heartbroken; Emily Dickinson Is Found In The Arms Of Her Father's Friend Judge Otis Lord, And That's Not All. As Infidelity And Lust Run Rampant, The Incendiary Ghost Of Lord Byron Is Evoked, And The Characters Of A Summer Of Hummingbirds Find Themselves Caught In The Crossfire Between The Calvinist World Of Decorum, Restraint, And Judgment And A Romantic, Unconventional World In Which Nature Prevails And Freedom Is All., Penguin Press, 2008, 6, Teaneck, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1972. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers are clean with light shelf wear. Contents: Helms, Blake at Felpham: a study in the psychology of vision. Chaitin, Religion as defense: the structure of The Brothers Karamazov. Haltresht, The dread of space in Conrad's The Secret Agent. Grundy, Growing up Dickensian. ; 10.0" tall; 51 pages., Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1972, 3, Rutherford & London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press & Associated University Press, 1993. Hardcover. 156p., frontis-portrait of West, introduction, notes, select bibliography, index, bookmark for a Jack Cady book laid-in, warm personal inscription to Jack [Cady] signed "Audrey" by the author, mild wear otherwise a good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj. Critique and biography of the Irish writer., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press & Associated University Press, 1993, 0, Charlottesville, VA: Biographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1965. First Edition, First Printing; gray c w/paper labels; includes: The Historiography of American Literary Publishing by G. Thomas Tanselle, The Chaucerian Proverbs by George B. Pace, The Printing of Spenser's Faerie Queene in 1596 by Frank B. Evans, Dr. Donne and the Booksellers by R. C. Bald, Bibliographical Account of The Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1754 by William B. Todd , Tennyson's The Lover's Tale, R. H. Shepherd, and T. J. Wise by W. D. Paden , Article Tennyson's The Lover's Tale, R. H. Shepherd, and T. J. Wise by W. D. Paden [pp. 111-145] Article A Quantitative Solution of the Ambiguity of Three Texts by Anton?n Hrub, Description of "Paternal": The Unpublished Autobiography of Cotton Mather by William R. Manierre , Emily Dickinson and the Machine by S. P. Rosenbaum, The Red Badge of Courage Manuscript: New Evidence for a Critical Edition by William L. Howarth, The First Edition of Ficino's De Christiana Religione: A Problem in Bibliographical Description by Curt F. Buhler , Printer and the Date of Romeo and Juliet Q4 by George Walton Williams, The Printing of A King and No King Q1 by Robert K. Turner, Jr. [, The Date of the Separate Edition of Milton's "Epitaphium Damonis" by John T. Shawcross , Shirley's Coronation and Love Will Find Out the Way: Erroneous Title-pages. by T. J. King , A Checklist of the Writings of Albion W. Tourge (1838-1905) by Dean H. Keller, Whitman's Leaves of Grass: Notes on the Pocketbook (1889) Edition by William White , Blake's Jerusalem: Plate 3 Fully Restored by David V. Erdman , A Note on Tennyson's Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. by Christopher Ricks , Etc.; 312+ clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4 vo., Biographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1965, 3, Boston. Boston: Boston College. Near Fine. 1998. Softcover. Bump to foot of spine. Covers are clean and unworn, binding is tight, pages are crisp and unmarked. Book appears unread. A beautifully produced journal printed on coated paper; illustrated. . This is a scholarly journal examining connections between religion and the arts, and includes scholarly articles, review essays, book reviews, and more. This issue is a special issue devoted largely to Raymond Carver: "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver: A Variorum Edition, by Steve Mirarchi; Conditions of Possibility: Religious Revision in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral, " by Steve Mirarchi; Word of God in Some Raymond Carver Stories, by Edward Duffy; A Note on the Function of Language in "Cathedral, " by Paul Doherty; Low Roofs Over Infinity: Architectural Miniatures in a Typology of Ritual Object, by John Renard; Prophetic Riddles: The Enigmas of Emily Dickinson, by J23675ohn Hildebidle. . Trade PB. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 144 pages. K4 ., Boston College, 1998, 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Two volume set. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 481 + 391 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copies in Near Fine dust jackets. Dust jackets housed in archival dust jacket protectors., Oxford University Press, 1993, 4, -Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001-. First edition. 235 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. Recontextualises the eight novels of Theodore Dreiser with regard to his pervasive allusions, both in passing and at deep structural levels, in classical Greek myth, epic, and drama. His so-called naturalism, his elusive social criticism, and his unique approaches to sexuaity, gender, and religion are often dictated by Dreiser's self-characterized "pagan" outlook, which itself reflected a larger cultural movement of early-twentieth-century America. Dreiser is reconsidered in the company of his modernist contemporaries, such as Eliot and Joyce, who drew heavily on ordered myth systems in order to dramatize the instability of the World War I era., -Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001-, 0<