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Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson's growth–a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production.
Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson's own letters. Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish and why was this refusal so integral an aspect of her work? Habegger also illuminates many of the essential connection sin Dickinson's story: between the decay of doctrinal Protestantism and the emergence of her riddling lyric vision; between her father's political isolation after the Whig Party's collapse and her private poetic vocation; between her frustrated quest for human intimacy and the tuning of her uniquely seductive voice.
The definitive treatment of Dickinson's life and times, and of her poetic development, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books shows how she could be both a woman of her era and a timeless creator. Although many aspects of her life and work will always elude scrutiny, her living, changing profile at least comes into focus in this meticulous and magisterial biography.
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Kenton Sumner
reviewed My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson on January 19, 2012
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
I'd have given this 2 stars were it not solely for the massive amount of research and collecting of letters, dates, history, etc. that precluded the writing of something like this.
However, Emily Dickinson remains just as an elusive figure as before this (or any other attempt at her biography) was written.
In the introduction, a literary critic addressed the fact that sometimes a poet's works were written for personal reasons and were never meant for others' eyes at all.
"At certain levels, we are not meant to understand at all, and our interpretation, indeed our reading itself, is an intrusion."
That alone fills me with a measure of guilt. As though I'm reading someone's diary without their permission.
On the flip side, I am grateful to have had these words before me from a young age. Because I felt a kinship toward her. The thoughts she expressed. The feelings she, obviously, harbored deeply but which were known to few.
Perhaps another reason as to why I've long felt a connection to Ms. Dickinson is simply because she was a fellow introvert who had no need for accolades amongst her peers-- or the reading society at large.
Her words were for a few select friends ... and herself.
And that was enough for her.
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