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Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief.
From: Church History
Date: 19991201
Author:Carver, Frances Grace
Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. By Roger Lundin. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998. xiv + 305 pp. $24.00 cloth; $16.00 paper.
We all know that Emily Dickinson chafed under a harsh Puritan upbringing and rescued herself by silently churning out pithy and irreverent poems. Or do we? Disagreeing with previous biographers, Lundin proposes that Dickinson did not react against religion with irreligion. Rather, she chose poetry as a "surrogate for traditional religion" (59). He succeeds in making a well-nuanced, felicitously written, and ...
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