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Member: emily_dickinson

Library144 books — see library

Reviews47 reviews — see reviews

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TagsEmily Dickinson (127), Literary Criticism (68), Criticism and Interpretation (54), Collected Essays (29), Women and Literature (27), Biography (24), Mysticism (20), Bibliography (18), Feminist Literature (17) — see all tags

GroupsAsian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Chadou, the Way of Tea (Japanese tea ceremony), EmilyDickinson, Feminist Theory, Mystical & Spiritual., Nature Lit, Poetry Fool, Poets' Corner: Librarythingers, Taoism

About me The photo right imagines ED as Imagination herself, as Dickinson describes her, a veritable "tempest in a teapot," or, as a Dickinsonian personification of Nature -- "Nature is fond, I sometimes think, of trinkets, as a girl."

About my library Welcome to the EWM Emily Dickinson Library (compiled by earlywomenmasters.net/dickinson) -- all about Emily Dickinson -- best loved ED poetry books -- not all the books out there, but one person's library, nevertheless including commentary and collected essays, biographies and compilations of Emily's letters, criticism and interpretation, along with comparative studies of Emily Dickinson and other poets, thinkers and contemplatives, past and present. In addition, important background information is supported by additional texts on transcendentalism, Buddhism, eastern philosophy (including classics such as the Upanishads and Tao Te Ching), feminist poetics, Shakespeare, women and Shakespeare, queer theory, ecocriticism, mysticism, orientalism, enclosure, the inner journey of the labyrinth (with its open center), the writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the life of Helen Hunt Jackson and other related subjects.

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by Emily Dickinson (J-371) (F-569)

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A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis --

To meet an Antique Book --

In just the Dress his Century wore --

A privilege -- I think --

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His venerable Hand to take --

And warming in our own --

A passage back -- or two -- to make --

To Times when he -- was young --

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His quaint opinions -- to inspect --

His thought to ascertain

On Themes concern our mutual mind --

The Literature of Man --

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What interested Scholars -- most --

What Competitions ran --

When Plato -- was a Certainty --

And Sophocles -- a Man --

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When Sappho -- was a living Girl --

And Beatrice wore

The Gown that Dante -- deified --

Facts Centuries before

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He traverses -- familiar --

As One should come to Town --

And tell you all your Dreams -- were true --

He lived -- where Dreams were born --

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His presence is Enchantment --

You beg him not to go --

Old Volumes shake their Vellum Heads

And tantalize -- just so --

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Homepagehttp://earlywomenmasters.net/dickinson/

LocationThe 1860's Homestead, Amherst, Massachusetts

Favorite authorsNone specified

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Member sinceApr 9, 2006