These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Mart

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE These Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson that sheds new light on her ground-breaking poetry. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, ?All things are ready? and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely ?at home? (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinsons interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinsons life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified ?Master,? and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinsons inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an ?enjoyable and absorbing? (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literatures most enigmatic figure. Author Biography Martha Ackmann, author of These Fevered Days, Curveball, and The Mercury 13, writes about women who have changed America. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Ackmann taught a popular seminar on Dickinson at Mount Holyoke College and lives in western Massachusetts. Review "Martha Ackmann is a rare scholar. She is steeped in her subjects work, but also fills her book with the light and sounds of Dickinsons home. Dickinson is at once the most mysterious and yet most accessible of American poets, and she led what has been called the most remarkable unremarkable life in American letters. Ackmann does justice to this creative paradox in her warm and stirring book." -- Cullen Murphy - The Atlantic Review Quote "Using an ingenious device to capture the whole of Emily Dickinsons life by presenting it in ten distinct tableaux, Martha Ackmann illuminates the poet from her first word as a toddler, music, to her final written ones, called back. In These Fevered Days, the author describes a gift from Dickinson to a friend as exquisite, tender, and intimate, words that aptly describe Ackmanns latest triumph." Details ISBN0393609308 Author Martha Ackmann Year 2020 ISBN-10 0393609308 ISBN-13 9780393609301 Format Hardcover Imprint WW Norton & Co Subtitle Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations Pages 304 DEWEY 811.4 Short Title These Fevered Days Language English Publication Date 2020-03-24 UK Release Date 2020-03-24 NZ Release Date 2020-03-24 US Release Date 2020-03-24 Publisher WW Norton & Co Alternative 9780393867534 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-03-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161725824;

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