Emily Dickinson An Interpretive Biography by Thomas H. Johnson Illustrated First Edition 1955 Harvard University Press Original Dust Jacket

Emily Dickinson An Interpretive Biography by Thomas H. Johnson Illustrated First Edition 1955 Harvard University Press Original Dust Jacket

<Condition is Fair+ as Pictured (normal wear with markings, foxing & toning to the interior pages, visible edge-wear, previous owners name crossed out in marker inside front cover, lightly soiled)

—A century ago one of the most beautiful voices and perhaps the clearest in history of American genius was just beginning to speak. In the valley town of Amherst Emily Dickinson was a young woman of 25 preoccupied with religion, family, love, and the prosody she found in the family hymnbooks. Ahead of her lay virtually all her poetry, her fateful friendships, the love that colored so many of her years, her seclusion, and the ultimate decision that she had no need of fame.

Over the years her voice is as fresh and meaningful as when it first cut through the hazy romanticism of the 19th century. No, even more than then, it could be said:

“ revolution is the pod, systems rattle from”

No longer a poet to a private audience but the world Emily Dickinson cannot be read without an almost painful whence recognition from some hidden spot of sensitivity truly touched. But the woman who owned and ordered this power is as enigmatic and fascinating today and she was misunderstood during her lifetime. Legend, gossip, and speculation have blurred the image of a person who did not permit shadows to temper her own vision of herself, her world, or her God.

Thomas Johnson brings to this biography an artists understanding imagination and completeness of information not available to previous writers. For this remarkable moving book the author has been able to examine and assess all the information concerning Emily Dickinson that is known to exist, something that has not been possible until now. The result is a Complete and authoritative human picture is an interpretation of genius can be.

Emily Dickinson lives in these pages and she must have lived in Amhurst, a product of the valley, part of it but always beyond it, in original spirit who constructed the universe out of materials infinitely small. As they merge here from her life her poems speak for her and describe her as audacious, witty, passionate, deliberately elusive, and supremely courageous. Hers too was an unwavering knowledge of herself that would lead her to write a few weeks before her death:

“Back from the cordial grave I drag thee
He shall not take thy hand
Nor put his spacious arm around thee
That none can understand “



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