The Passion of Emily Dickinson (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Farr
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1830-1886
- Setting: Amherst, Massachusetts, and its environs
- Principal Characters: Emily Dickinson, William Austin Dickinson, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, Samuel Bowles
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Literature, Poetry or poets, Women
- Locales: Amherst, MA
Excluded from the title of this major study of Emily Dickinson is the suggested subtitle A Biography. In theory, a comprehensive biography of Dickinson would seem to be an impossible task. So secretive are many aspects of her life, so guarded are anecdotal reports of her contemporaries, so ambiguous or cryptic are the customary primary sources of investigation letters, journals, poetry that a biographer might despair of constructing a composite portrait of the artist because of the fragmentary nature of evidence. Nevertheless, Farr’s study comes as close to a true biography of...
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