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SPECK ‘N U: 17 (Emily Dickinson)

rebecca — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:15:22 +0000

* From “Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters” edited by Thomas H. Johnson

SPECK ‘N U: 16 (Emily Dickinson)

rebecca — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:49:42 +0000

From “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson” (1960), edited by Thomas H. Johnson

On hope: Emily Dickinson’s idea

rebecca — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:52:25 +0000

From “The Poems of Emily Dickinson” (Franklin, 1999):

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops – at all -

Is my verse alive? Emily Dickinson asked

rebecca — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:09:43 +0000

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.
by Emily Dickinson

For fans old or new of Emily Dickinson, a new biography is just out. Titled “White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson,” it’s by Brenda Wineapple and it’s getting high praise from critics.

You can find one recent review here from The New York Sun (“The Activist and the Recluse” by Eric Ormsby, Aug 6, 2008).

And if you want to read an excerpt from Wineapple’s book itself, there’s one here on the publisher’s website (Random House/Knopf).