Garnishing awards from "Choice, Christianity Today, Books &
Culture," and the Conference on Christianity and Literature when
first published in 1998, Roger Lundin's "Emily Dickinson and the
Art of Belief" has been widely recognized as one of the finest
biographies of the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Paying
special attention to her experience of faith, Lundin skillfully
relates Dickinson's life -- as it can be charted through her poems
and letters -- to nineteenth-century American political, social,
religious, and intellectual history.
This second edition of Lundin's superb work includes a standard
bibliography, expanded notes, and a more extensive discussion of
Dickinson's poetry than the first edition contained. Besides
examining Dickinson's singular life and work in greater depth,
Lundin has also keyed all poem citations to the recently updated
standard edition of Dickinson's poetry. Already outstanding,
Lundin's biography of Emily Dickinson is now even better than
before.
From reviews of the original edition
Lundin's gracefully written biography is a fine introduction for
readers who know little about the life of Emily Dickinson;
specialists too will profit from Lundin's portrait of her in the
context of the cultural, political, and theological issues of her
day and of the history of Christian thought.
-- Dorothy Huff Oberhaus in "Emily Dickinson International Society
Bulletin"
Lundin gives us a magnificent literary biography, massively
researched, elegantly written, subtly argued. . . . A work of
haunting beauty.
-- Grant Wacker in "Books & Culture"
Well written, free of the swollen jargon that obscures so much
academic writing, Lundin's study ofDickinson provides a thoughtful
analysis of America's greatest poet and the God who always eluded
her grasp.
-- Martha Ackmann in "The Journal of American History"
Rarely do reviewers read books they wish they had written. This
is one of them. . . . Lundin's biography provides a unique and
succinct introduction to this enigmatic poet and the spiritual
struggle at the core of her being and her work.
-- S. R. Graham in "Choice"
Dickinson may well be the finest lyric poet America has yet
produced -- a fact that Lundin's learned and clear-sighted study
gives us further reason to know.
-- David Yezzi in "Commonweal
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