Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (William B Eerdmans Publishing Co)

Named an "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice when it was published in 1998, Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief has since been widely recognized as one of the finest biographies of the great America poet. This superb work by Roger Lundin is now available in a revised edition that, in addition to incorporating important text updates, also aligns all citations of Dickinson's poems with the newly established standard edition of Dickinson's writing. In this book Lundin looks chronologically at Dickinson's life, paying special attention to her experience of faith. Lundin skillfully relates her personal development--as it can be charted thought her poems and letters--to nineteenth-century American political, social, religious, and intellectual history.