My Wars Are Laid Away in Books (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alfred Habegger
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1830-1886
- Setting: Amherst, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Emily Dickinson, Edward Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie) Dickinson, Austin Dickinson, Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Samuel Bowles, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Reverend Charles Wadsworth, Otis Phillips Lord
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, New England, Women, Massachusetts
- Locales: Amherst, MA
Emily Dickinson was perhaps the greatest poet, and certainly the greatest literary mystery, of the American nineteenth century. How did this diminutive, reclusive spinster write those terse, compact poems containing such insights into self, love, and death? How did a woman who traveled so little in the world outside Amherst, Masssachussets, gain such knowledge of what goes on inside the human heart and the human head? Alfred Habegger is the latest literary detective to take up the challenge which Dickinson’s life throws in the face of readers, and his years of research should settle...
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