A Poet's Parents
Subtitle: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780807817971
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Works by individual poets: 19th century; 19th Century American Poetry; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; General; Correspondence; Dickinson family; Dickinson, Edward; Dickinson, Emily; Dickinson, Emily Norcross; 1804-1882; 1830-1886; 19th century; Dickinson, Emily Norcross,; Dickinson, Emily,; Family; Family relationships; Love-letters; Poets, American
Description: This volume presents a collection of the courtship letters exchanged between American poet Emily Dickinson's (1830-1886) future parents. Through the letters, readers are able to get a feel for the issues that were vital to the lives of Emily's parents and therefore became an influence to Emily's subsequent development. In her introduction, the editor places the letters within the context of nineteenth-century American society and argues that the poet's disturbed relationship with her mother forms part of a larger pattern that is exhibited in Emily's future artistic works.