| Edition |
1st Anchor Books ed. |
| Description |
xi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Inbcludes bibliographical references (pages 373-384) and index. |
| Contents |
The letter -- Before -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson : without a little crack somewhere -- Emily Dickinson : if I live, I will go to Amherst -- Emily Dickinson : write! Comrade, write! -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson : Liberty is aggressive -- During -- Nature is a haunted house -- Intensely human -- Agony is frugal -- No other way -- Her deathless syllable -- The realm of you -- Moments of preface -- Things that never can come back -- Monarch of dreams -- Pugilist and poet -- Rendezvous of light -- Beyond the dip of bell -- Poetry of the portfolio -- Me-come! My dazzled face -- Because I could not stop. |
| Summary |
The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson--recluse, poet--and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist. |
| Contents |
The letter -- Before -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson: without a little crack somewhere -- Emily Dickinson: if I live, I will go to Amherst -- Emily Dickinson: write! Comrade, write! -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Liberty is aggressive -- During -- Nature is a haunted house -- Intensely human -- Agony is frugal -- No other way -- Her deathless syllable -- The realm of you -- Moments of preface -- Things that never can come back -- Monarch of dreams -- Pugilist and poet -- Rendezvous of light -- Beyond the dip of bell -- Poetry of the portfolio -- Me-come! My dazzled face -- Because I could not stop. |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Friends and associates.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. |
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Friends and associates. |
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Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. |
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Correspondence.
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| Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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| Subject |
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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| ISBN |
9780307456304 paperback |
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0307456307 paperback |
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