Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation Poetry, Philosophy, Science [Paperback]

Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Contrary to the image of the isolated poet, this ambitious study reveals Dickinson's agile mind developing through conversation with a community of contemporaries.Introduction PART I: GATHERING EXPERIENCE 1. Proclaiming Empiricism 2. Guiding Experiment PART II: EXTENDING EXPERIENCE 3. Gaining Loss 4. Despairing Hope Conclusion Appendix A: Empiricism and Evangelicalism: A Combination of Romanticism Appendix B: Locke and Wesley: An Essence of Influence Appendix C: Wadsworth and Dickinson: A Marriage of Minds

Richard E. Brantleys Emily Dickinsons Rich Conversation: Poetry, Philosophy, Science & is a substantial study that seeks to illuminate Dickinsons poetry as a dialogic art form, engaged in a stylistic and thematic exploration of a wide variety of philosophical, scientific, and poetic discourses. & Emily Dickinsons Rich Conversation is, in itself, an imaginative conversation with Dickinson that will provoke lively further debate on many of the subjects it addresses. (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)

Brantley's erudite and affectionate book brings a lifetime of scholarship on Dickinson and the wider context of Anglo-American empirical and Romantic traditions to bear on his reading of the poet. - The Emily Dickinson Journal

Highly recommended. - CHOICE

This book gives us a newly riveting Dickinson, a capacious, complex, and supple poet who could out-do Darwin in staring at the earth's chaos but who could also, at the core of the turbulence, channel Wordsworth's undying sense that order would prevail: not the rigid orders of the logicians or the philosophers, but the more aesthetic structures of the heart, always attuned, even when saddest, to beauty, which, as we know from Keats, can only exist if it's already dying. Remarkably, given his past achievements as a historian of l*