false <![CDATA[White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255904939m/3361966.jpg 3361966 1 <p>A radiant portrayal of one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters&#8212;between the elusive, original poet and the radical abolitionist, reformer, and writer whom we have to thank for the publication of Emily Dickinson&#8217;s poetry.<br><br>Brenda Wineapple re-creates the extraordinary, delicate connection between these two wildly dissimilar personalities, giving us new insight into the correspondence between them, which lasted almost a quarter of a century, a correspondence that included nearly one hundred of Dickinson&#8217;s dazzling, unseen poems. We see how Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in his dual role as friend and literary adviser, counseled her against publishing, suggesting that her poetry was too unconventional, defiant, and unpredictable. And we see how, after her death, he himself coedited the first editions of her poetry&#8212;changing her distinctive punctuation&#8212;and watched them become immediate bestsellers.<br><br>Emily Dickinson and Thomas Higginson met face-to-face only twice (&#8220;I never was with any one who drained my nerve power so much,&#8221; he said), but Wineapple makes clear that their friendship nonetheless throws a brilliant light both behind the hidden door of the poet&#8217;s nimble imagination and into a corner of the noisy century that she and Colonel Higginson shared.<br><br><i>White Heat </i>is a book about poetry, politics, love, and commitment; it is, as well, a story of seclusion and engagement, isolation and activism&#8212;and the ways in which they were related and separate&#8212;in the roiling America of the nineteenth century.</p> 3401237 12 8 2008 White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson total:91|5:26|4:42|3:16|2:7|1:0| 91 360 332 34 4 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 07:54:50 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 08:04:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Dec 07 22:03:39 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 22:25:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 15:17:13 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 16:57:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:59:53 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:59:53 -0800 2009 Critics embraced this new angle on the life of Emily Dickinson, one of America's best-loved poets but also one of the most difficult to understand. While the subject of the book may seem rather narrow, reviewers claimed that Wineapple's excellent narrative and literary sensibilities keep White Heat ...

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One of my favorite Dickinson poems:

I died for beauty--but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room--
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Only Dickinson's half of the correspondence remains, thanks to good old sister Vinnie. Wineapple gleans many sparkling new bits of informa...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 10:43:56 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 12:15:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 15:39:36 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 12:00:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 09:47:24 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 19:09:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jan 30 08:25:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 08:27:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 10 15:26:41 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 12:50:30 -0700 2008 Emily Dickinson lived what seemed a strange life - she never saw anyone beyond her immed...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 18:11:11 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 18:14:16 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:59:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 11:00:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 27 11:30:05 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 09:49:23 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 11:30:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 16:58:14 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 11:43:23 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3361966