101. Emily Dickinson In 1862 Dickinson started her life long correspondence and friendship with ThomasWentworth Higginson (18231911), a writer and reformer, who commanded http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/emilydic.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American lyrical poet, a recluse, nicknamed the "nun of Amherst" - only seven of Dickinson's some 1800 poems were published during her lifetime, five of them in the Springfield Republican . Dickinson never married. She withdrew from social contact and devoted herself in secret into writing. I felt a Cleaving in my Mind - As if my Brain had split - I tried to match it - Seam by Seam - But could not make them fit. The thought behind, I strove to join Unto the thought before - But Sequence ravelled out of Sound Like Balls - upon a Floor. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a family well known for educational and political activity. Her father, an orthodox Calvinist, was a lawyer and treasurer of the local college. He also served in Congress. Dickinson's mother, whose name was also Emily, was a cold, religious, hard-working housewife, who suffered from depression. Her relationship with her daughter was distant. Later Dickinson wrote in a letter, that she never had a mother. Dickinson was educated at Amherst Academy (1834-47) and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (1847-48). Around 1850 she started to compose poems - "Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine, / Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!" she said in her earliest known poem, dated March 4, 1850. It was published in

102. The Magnificent Activist By RICHARD E. NICHOLLS. THE MAGNIFICENT ACTIVIST The Writings of Thomas WentworthHigginson (18231911). Edited by Howard N. Meyer. Da Capo, paper, $25. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/20/bib/000820.rv103827.html

103. Chapter Scholars And Essayists Of Index By Simonds History Of American Literatur Dr. Hale s work in fiction has been referred to earlier.1 Thomas WentworthHigginson (18231911), one of the Cambridge group, is the author of two volumes http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/270/1820/21963/1.html

Scholars and Essayists VI. SCHOLARS AND ESSAYISTS Literary Critics. In the field of literary criticism the work of Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886) was notable. He was the author of several volumes of scholarly essays including Literature and Life Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1869), and American Literature, and Other Papers (1887). Horace E. Scudder (1838- 1902), long associated with the publication of the Atlantic Monthly , he succeeded Aldrich as its editor in 1890, was an indefatigable writer, the extent of whose service to American letters is hardly understood, since much of his work was anonymous. Henry N. Hudson Richard Grant White William James Rolfe (1827-1910), and Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912) are to be remembered for their services in the criticism and interpretation of Shakespeare's dramas. Their scholarly editions of the plays are among the best that have been produced. The name of William Winter (1836-1917), author of Shakespeare's England (1886) and our foremost critic of the stage, may be mentioned in this connection. Personal Literary Recollections appeared in 1909.

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