Emily Dickenson (Annotated Bibliography)

Regarded today as one of the greatest American poets, Emily Dickinson had no right to literary recognition during his lifetime. Almost absent from the literary scene, she was also weak in the theater of life. His field experience was limited, since it walked away from Amherst as to spend a year at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley or during rare visits to Washington or Boston. It seems she has not left the circle of this small community of Puritan New England, nor crossed the threshold of the family home where she is please say so - between her father's lawyer and politician, admired and feared, mother more erased, between her sister Livonia, who never went either, and his brother Austin, installed in the house next door with his wife Susan, a friend of the heart of the poetess. The choice of a retreat from the world book an essential sign: the distancing, irony. But in some respects, this withdrawal was perhaps less absolute than it seems: while robbing the world of marriage, she wrote passionate letters to various correspondents male. The end of his life was marked by repeated bereavements (his father in 1874, his mother in 1882, her nephew Gilbert, who died at the age of eight in 1883, Otis P. Lord in 1884). Secret and expansive, serious and mocking, audacious free discreet but his personality is as complex as the real space of his experience was limited. According to Adrienne Rich "genius always knows himself, Dickinson chose his confinement because she knew what suited her." This choice of artist allowed him to live by reading and writing: reading the Bible, Shakespeare and Dickens, or Emerson, Hawthorne and Melville, in writing, the age of twenty years until his death in 1775 poems.

This is the place where Dickinson is locked in its time and space that it, by some unlikely and unprecedented gap in its native environment, its culture. This is where an operation is accomplished literary - but also existential - which transforms the contingency and circumstances, releasing a word absolutely singular and universal. Universal because singular.

Some features of the work may help locate the places of secrecy. A scathing irony and terrible that nothing in this world as in the other, seems to be protected, and the ironist less than anyone. A taste for abstraction and metaphysical speculation, formulated in sentences sharp and definitive. A mad passion, without limitation, the purpose trembles and wobbles - but not the enthusiasm - the more human affection figures of the invisible and return: "The few articles she agrees to raise mortals are screened by his desire to be transparent, "said one American critic. The waning of the natural boundary near and far, the intimate and the world, the familiar and the strange, beauty and loss or in flight: "All that we preserve the beauty is Evanescence's, "she says in a letter of 1850.

All her life, Emily Dickinson will be considered the mystery of death without ...