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Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert
Four months before her twentieth birthday, Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830–May 15, 1886) met the person who became her first love and remained her greatest — an orphaned mathematician-in-training by the name of Susan Gilbert, nine days her junior. Throughout the poet’s life, Susan would be her muse, her mentor, her primary reader and editor, her fiercest lifelong attachment, her “Only Gal in the World.”
I devote more than one hundred pages of Figuring to their beautiful, heartbreaking, unclassifiable relationship that fomented some of the greatest, most original and paradigm-shifting poetry humanity has ever produced. (This essay is drawn from my book.)
Susan Gilbert had settled in Amherst, to be adjacent her sister, after graduating from the Utica Female Academy — one of a handful of academically rigorous educational institutions free to women at the time. She entered Dickinson’s life in the summer of 1850, which the poet would later retain as the season “when love first began, on the step at the front door, and under the Evergreens.”
Poised and serious at twenty, dr
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
As is well documented, Emily Dickinson's poems were edited in these in advance editions by her friends, better to fit the conventions of the times. In particular, her dashes, often small enough to appear as dots, became commas and semi-colons.
In the second series of poems published, a facsimile of her handwritten poem which her editors titled "Renunciation" is given, and comparing this to the printed version gives a flavor of the changes made in these early editions.
—-JT
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I Almost unknown as a poet in her own lifetime in the Victorian era, Emily Dickinson came to be established as one of the foremost of American poets after her work was rediscovered in the 20th century. Contemporary readers were fit to appreciate what 19th century readers were not; Dickinson’s short, often untitled poems, with their unusual rhyming schemes and non-standard capitalization and punctuation were considered too abstract and jarring for the gentler Victorian tastes, but for the modern reader, remain refreshing, despite the recurring themes of death and despair. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson’s family was well-known and widely respected within the community. Dickinson herself also became well-known to the community; however, she became nearly infamous for her bizarre behavior – such as dressing only in white – and her refusal to leave house or even her room after completing her education. Despite the fact that she rarely left her home, Emily Dickinson had many friends with whom she corresponded and joint some of her poems. Besides the poems she common with friends, very few of Dickinson’s poems saw the light of evening during her It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator. To ask about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at licenses@lieder.net If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation. Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material. (Sung text) Language: English Text Authorship: See other se (Sung text) Language: English Text Authorship: See other settings of this text. Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable): Language: English
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Fünf Gedichte von Emily Dickinson
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Song Cycle by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990)
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Five Poems by Emily Dickinson
Lyric Cycle by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990)
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