Absolut Dickinson: Emily Dickinsons 25 bedste digte udvalgt og oversat af Niels Kjær

By Emily Dickinson

"Absolut Dickinson" indeholder Emily Dickinsons 25 bedste digte. Udvalget er baseret dels på internettets lister over de mest populære Dickinson-digte, dels på de amerikanske litteraturkritikeres favoritter.

• Language: Dansk
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Apr 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9788771145724

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson was raised in a prominent family of lawyers and politicians alongside two siblings. For seven years, she studied at Amherst Academy, excelling in English, classics, and the sciences. Dickinson suffered from melancholy and poor health from a young age, taking several breaks from school to stay with family in Boston. After graduation, Dickinson enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, withdrawing ten months later to return home to Amherst. Through her friend Benjamin Franklin Newton, she was introduced to the poetry of William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose influence would prove profound as she embarked on a literary life of her own. Despite her status as one of the greatest American poets of the nineteenth century, Dickinson published only ten poems and one letter during her lifetime, only a sampling of nearly two thousand poems discovered after her death. Cast as an eccentric by contemporaries and later critics alike, Dickinson was an enigmatic figure whose experimental forms and extensive use of symbols have inspired generations of readers and poets. By the 1870s, following the death of her father, Dickinson had largely withdrawn from public life. Spending much of her time caring for her ailing mother, she still managed to write poems and send letters to friends and family. In 1886, following her death, Dickinson’s younger sister Lavinia discovered her collection of poems and began the long and arduous process of bringing them to print.

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Absolut Dickinson

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Emily Dickinsons 25 bedste digte udvalgt og oversat af Niels Kjær

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Absolut Dickinson

Emily Dickinsons 25 bedste digte udvalgt og oversat af Niels Kjær 

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Emily Dickinson er et af de helt store navne i amerikansk lyrik. Ja, selv efter international målestok hører hun hjemme i den lille eksklusive kreds af udødelige digtere.

Emily Dickinson blev født i 1830 i Amherst, Massachusetts, og hun døde samme sted i 1886. Hendes farfar, far og bror var alle tre sagførere og indehavere af en række tillidshverv i den lille by. I dette snævre og beskyttede  miljø levede Emily Dickinson altså hele sit liv - og hun var dybt rodfæstet i det. Hun giftede sig