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#PDF~ Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington
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#PDF~ Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson [F.R.E.E
D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D R.E.A.D]
#PDF~ Open Me
Carefully: Emily
Dickinson's Intimate
Letters to Susan
Huntington Dickinson
[F.R.E.E
D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D
R.E.A.D]
Description
Amazon.com Emily Dickinson is a figure of intense contradictions: the hermit, the spinster, the frail woman
in white who nonetheless wrote poems of almost painfully turbulent passion. For years, biographers have
speculated about the male mentor who inspired Dickinson's work, naming intellectual figures like Thomas
Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Bowles as possible candidates. As it turns out, however, they might have
looked closer to home. For years, both before and after a painful break in their relationship, Dickinson wrote
ardent letters to her friend (and eventual sister-in-law) Susan Huntington Dickinson. In fact, she wrote more
letters to Susan than to anyone else, despite the fact that at one point Susan lived only a stone's throw away.
Like Dickinson's poetry, these letters are a curious business: half epistles, half poems, idiosyncratically
capitalized, punctuated, and spaced. They are not merely warm, in the 19th-century way; they are fierce,
even erotic, in the kind of attachment they express. Yet editors Ellen Hart and Martha Smith aren't in the
business of outing anyone; they prefer to simply present the correspondence in all its passionate oddity.
Susan Dickinson was clearly a friend as well as one of the most valued readers of her sister-in-law's poetry--
but was she its inspiration, as well? Hart and Smith let the reader decide. This intriguing new collection of
letters and poems, compiled by two noted Dickinson scholars, reveals a little-known side of one of
America's best-loved poets. Documenting a 36-year correspondence between Emily Dickinson and her sisterin-law,
Susan Huntington Dickinson, the book does much to negate the popular image of Emily as a
mysterious, lonely recluse. In writing filled with warmth, humor, playfulness, and joy, Emily shows her
profound attachment to Susan as a friend and as an object of literary inspiration. The romantic and often
erotically charged writings, censored or misinterpreted in earlier collections, will surprise many readers.
Building upon standard works such as Thomas Johnson's Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), Hart and Smith
revise earlier scholarship and provide fresh commentary. Published by a highly selective feminist press that
typically produces only two titles per year, this book is an important acquisition for academic and larger
public libraries.?Ellen Sullivan, Ferguson Lib., Stamford, CTCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information,
Inc. See all Editorial Reviews