“Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?” April
1862 http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2016/04/are-you-too-deeply-occupied-to-say-if.html
“Her and his” A Review by “The Economist” of “White Heat:
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson” by Brenda
Wineapple
July 24th, 2008 - re-read April 21, 2016 / KED
I’ve always been a huge Emily Dickinson fan and this book
intrigues me… Moreover, I have always been particularly interested in the
friendships and relationships among writers… KED
Part One: Life
XXXIII
Emily Dickinson:
Has sated flame’s conditions,
Whose anvil’s even din
Until the designated light
Repudiate the forge.
American literary friendships
“BIOGRAPHY first convinces us of the fleeing of the
Biographied,” wrote Emily Dickinson, America’s most famous female poet of the
19th century, uncannily foreseeing how inscrutable a subject she herself would
turn out to be.
Rather like Emily Brontë, with whom she identified, Dickinson shrank from
contact with the world, scuttling off in her signature white dress as soon as a
visitor appeared at the door. Reluctant to share her pared-down, laser-sharp
and sometimes terrifyingly inward poems through publication—only seven were
printed in her lifetime—she nevertheless relied on an iron core of self-belief,
quietly prophesying that posterity would recognise her genius.
[…]
“Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?”
April 1862
Read the rest of the review here: Hers
and his
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