tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post7938926728521858096..comments2024-03-28T14:22:37.153-07:00Comments on mole: Grave RobbersDalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-59634906683563556762012-09-29T00:41:01.078-07:002012-09-29T00:41:01.078-07:00Never thought of it that way, but you're right...Never thought of it that way, but you're right. Keats writes from life, and Dickinson writes from death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-85269363712693086742012-09-08T06:31:19.519-07:002012-09-08T06:31:19.519-07:00Actually I believe the Sewall is still very well r...Actually I believe the Sewall is still very well regarded by Dickinson devotees!<br /><br />I guess the thing to do would be to read Sewall and then do an update on the critical view of her with Habegger's "My Wars are Laid Away in Books."<br /><br />I hardly ever read biography, though I liked it as a child. My favorite way of looking at her would be to read her letters. They are also quite "slanted," but vivid.<br /><br />Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-81045319257649215662012-09-07T13:32:43.232-07:002012-09-07T13:32:43.232-07:00:-) All points well taken, Marly! The Biography is...:-) All points well taken, Marly! The Biography is rather old -- Sewall's. It had a deceptive 1994 in the call number, but when I got it home from the library I found that it was 1974, so it's missing a whole generation's worth of scholarship. Which these days, for a figure like Dickinson, must be immense. Do you have one to recommend?Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-79964996247859913052012-09-07T13:20:15.432-07:002012-09-07T13:20:15.432-07:00It will be interesting to see what you think after...It will be interesting to see what you think after the biography. Whose?<br /><br />I do have some thoughts, which may or may not be helpful.<br /><br />A borrowed thought:<br />“On subjects of which we know nothing, or should I say Beings--we both believe and disbelieve a hundred times an Hour—which keeps Believing nimble.”<br />--Emily Herself<br /><br />Another thought:<br />Emily Dickinson is a Modern, and she plays with the clash between belief and disbelief. <br /><br />And yet another:<br />What triggers a poem and brings it into being may express only a part of a poet's life. <br /><br />Also:<br />She had an unusual life, but it was not so unusual as we think. Sophia Peabody before Hawthorne or Elizabeth Barrett before Browning lived lives that were quite parallel, and so did many other women who the times and the condition of women urged into home solitude and invalidism.<br /><br />It's like the way people keep declaring that famous historical figures were gay just because they slept in the same bed together at home or on a journey, as people routinely did before the warmth and wealth of the 20th century. Sometimes a bed is just a bed. (And sometimes it isn't just a bed, of course!)<br /><br />So I do think one has to take into consideration the times and the culture, neither of which are our own. The past is definitely another country.marly youmanshttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-46837095902176982422012-09-07T10:49:13.530-07:002012-09-07T10:49:13.530-07:00Yes, you may well be right! I don't really kno...Yes, you may well be right! I don't really know much about her -- I've just started a biography. But I don't know how much anyone really knows :-)Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-25169936343866662602012-09-06T19:55:07.148-07:002012-09-06T19:55:07.148-07:00I wonder whether she might have wanted people to m...I wonder whether she might have wanted people to mess about in her papers. It's always difficult to know about a person as peculiar as she was. Perhaps she wanted to be noticed in death if not in life. Just a thought. <br /><br /> Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04979547096244105508noreply@blogger.com