emily dickinson
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The History of Literature #457 — The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson’s Editor (The Thomas Wentworth Higginson Story) | PLUS Making (Book) Dreams Come True (with Eve Yohalem and Julie Sternberg)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) has become famous as the man who in 1862 encouraged young contributors to submit to his magazine – and who received in reply four poems from an unknown woman in Amherst, who asked whether he thought her verses were alive. Her name, of course, was Emily Dickinson, and Higginson recognized her… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #437 – A Million Miracles Now – “A Bird, came down the Walk” by Emily Dickinson
Responding to a listener email, a heartbroken Jacke takes a close look at Emily Dickinson’s astonishing poem “A Bird, came down the Walk.” Additional listening suggestions: 120 The Astonishing Emily Dickinson 418 “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson 95 The Runaway Poets (the story of the Brownings) Help support the show… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #418 – “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson
Because Jacke could not stop for the scheduled episode topics, a certain poem kindly stopped for him. Luckily it’s one of the greatest poems of all time! It’s by the 19th-century American genius Emily Dickinson, and it packs into seven short stanzas a journey through life, death, and the cosmos. Read a copy of the… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #120 – The Astonishing Emily Dickinson
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:10:59 — 49.0MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) might be the most enigmatic poet who ever lived. Her innovative use of meter and punctuation – and above all the liveliness of her ideas, as she crashes together abstract thoughts and concrete images – astonished her nineteenth-century readers and have… Continue reading
