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A thorough re-examination of Emily Dickinson's extraordinary poetry.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20020116
Author:Crowley, Claude

Alfred Habegger eschews gimmicks in this meticulous biography _ he starts with Emily Dickinson's ancestors, some of whom arrived in Massachusetts only about 16 years after the Mayflower landed, and carries the story along conventionally and chronologically until the poet's death in 1886. Legal documents, church records, notes, fragments and correspondence help Habegger build _ as well as it can be done after 115 years _ a definitive image of the poet. When I finished the book, I felt that I knew a real person, not just the mythic "Belle of Amherst."

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