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Tag Archives: Emily Dickinson
2010 Books Read
Round-up of the books I read this year, in the order in which I read them. I am nearly finished with one last book (a collection of stories by Miranda July, given to me by my sister Siobhan for my … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged A.S. Byatt, Andrei Tarkovsky, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Annie Proulx, books read, Dava Sobel, David O. Selznick, David Thomson, E.M. Forster, Elia Kazan, Ellen Terry, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Waugh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, Ireland, Jane Langton, Jaws, Joan Blondell, John Banville, John McGahern, Mark Helprin, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, Peter Bogdanovich, Rebecca West, Roman Polanski, Ron Chernow, Russia, Serbia, Shakespeare, Shirley Jackson, Stefan Zweig, Sylvia Beach, Tana French, Tennessee Williams, Warren Beatty
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“What’s This Gal’s Name Again? Oh Yeah, Emily Dickinson.”
Bill Murray reads to the construction workers working on the Poet’s House here in Manhattan. Not to be missed. Fantastic. I am proud of my city. I didn’t think it was possible for me to love Bill Murray more than … Continue reading
A New Look At Emily Dickinson
I am extremely curious about this new biography of Emily Dickinson (Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds, by Lyndall Gordon), that speculates (with good reason, apparently) that Dickinson was an epileptic. Wow. As always, Ted, I … Continue reading
“My Business is Circumference”
Letter from Emily Dickinson to her editor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, July, 1862. The letter is signed “Your Scholar”: Will you tell me my fault, frankly, as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the … Continue reading
Some Island snapshots
— “I cannot imagine how a casual reference to Suetonius and Petronius Arbiter can be construed into evidence of a desire to impress by an assumption of superior knowledge. I should fancy that the most ordinary of scholars is perfectly … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Block Island, Christopher Walken, Deborah Kerr, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Evelyn Waugh, Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hope, In a Lonely Place, Keri Hulme, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Neal, snapshots, T.S. Eliot, The Bone People
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366
Wow! Speaking of Emily Dickinson (see below) – just came across this piece on an art exhibit based on 1862 – the year when Dickinson wrote 366 poems in 365 days. Hard to even fathom. Check it out! A spiral … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to The Belle of Amherst
Emily Dickinson was born on this day in 1830. It is not known why she withdrew from society so completely. Theories abound. Books have been written. But the mystery remains. What we have are her poems. A wide interior life … Continue reading
Posted in On This Day, writers
Tagged Camille Paglia, Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, poetry
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The Books: “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry” – Emily Dickinson
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1: Modern Poetry, edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair I gotta be honest. EMILY DICKINSON FREAKS ME OUT. I can’t settle into her poems … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Paglia, Emily Dickinson, Joseph Cornell, Michael Schmidt, Norton Anthology of Poetry, poetry
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A Book of Days for 1931 (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley was a journalist and essayist who is probably mainly known for his passion for Sherlock Holmes, but it was a long and fruitful career (speaking of Ginger Rogers, he wrote Kitty Foyle, which gave her an Academy Award). … Continue reading