Emily Dickinson and the art of belief

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Selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1998, this fascinating biography by Roger Lundin shows why Emily Dickinson is not only one of America's finest poets but also one of the major religious thinkers of her age.

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In this readable new biography of the reclusive poet, Wheaton English professor Lundin concentrates on Dickinson's ambivalence toward Christianity and its effects on the self. He traces her inner debate through a careful analysis of Dickinson's poems and letters, and he concludes that she was "one of the major religious thinkers of her age." According to Lundin, Dickinson's struggle with suffering and the character of God mirrored the major forcesÄDarwinism, the Civil War, the spread of industrialismÄthat tested and altered American Protestantism. Lundin also contends that Dickinson's notion of God as silent and severe was drawn from her relationship with her father, Edward Dickinson, a remote patriarch who disdained the enthusiasm and emotion of religious revivals. The "Pugilist and Poet," as Dickinson described herself, longed to believe in God's loving care, but her sense of human frailty would not allow her wholly to accept His existence. In addition, she could not profess firsthand knowledge of the fruits of grace; nor could she detect any signs in her own soul of the holy joy that others claimed as they accepted Christ. Her choice of "poetry as a surrogate for traditional religious belief," writes Lundin, set her on a path to solitude, a path that led away from marriage, church and the world outside Amherst, Mass. Lundin's close readings of Dickinson's poetry and his careful analysis of Dickinson's historical and social context make a persuasive case for the implicit religious dimension of Dickinson's life and work. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Rarely do reviewers read books they wish they had written. For this reviewer, this is one of them, the fruit of one hundred years of Dickinson scholarship distilled into 300 pages of jargon-free, deceptively simple, insightful prose. A volume in the "Library of Religious Biography" series, it elucidates one of Dickinson's most significant contributions, as one of the greatest religious poets writing in English, while clearly appreciating the complexity and variety of her work. Allowing always for the frequent ambivalence of Dickinson's spiritual experience as revealed in her ambiguous poetry and letters, Lundin (Wheaton College, Illinois) places the poet with precision in the Christian, Trinitarian, American Puritan, Protestant, Romantic, and even post-Romantic traditions. No small accomplishment. Although Richard Sewall's two-volume The Life of Emily Dickinson (CH, Jun'75) remains the definitive life of the poet, and Cynthia Wolff's Emily Dickinson (CH, Apr'87) makes valid (if occasionally misleading) contributions on the subject that constitutes the ground of the study under review--i.e., Dickinson's religious experience--Lundin's biography provides a unique and succinct introduction to this enigmatic poet and the spiritual struggle at the core of her being and her work. For any lover of Dickinson's poetry, a superb introduction to her life and a judicious, illuminating presentation of the social, religious, and cultural climate of the Connecticut River Valley in Dickinson's day. Highly recommended for every academic collection. S. R. Graham emeritus, Nazareth College of Rochester

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xv
Chronology	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
1. The Props Assist the House	p. 7
2. The Child's Faith Is New	p. 19
3. I've Stopped Being Their's	p. 49
4. Homeless at Home	p. 63
5. Laying Away the Phantoms	p. 75
6. A Soul at the White Heat	p. 98
7. A More General Sorrow	p. 121
8. Vesuvius at Home	p. 142
9. The Mind Alone	p. 182
10. A Blissful Trial	p. 221
11. Rendevous of Light	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 268
Notes	p. 275
Permissions	p. 305
Index of First Lines	p. 306
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 310

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