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Author:

Wineapple, Brenda.

Title:

White heat : the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson / Brenda Wineapple.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 416 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Dickinson, Emily,--1830-1886--Friends and associates.
Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,--1823-1911.
Dickinson, Emily,--1830-1886--Correspondence.
Poets, American--19th century--Correspondence.
Vriendschap.
Gedichten.
Publicaties.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-384) and index.

Contents:

The letter -- Before -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson: without a little crack somewhere -- Emily Dickinson: if I live, I will go to Amherst -- Emily Dickinson: write! Comrade, write! -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Liberty is aggressive -- During -- Nature is a haunted house -- Intensely human -- Agony is frugal -- No other way -- Her deathless syllable -- The realm of you -- Moments of preface -- Things that never can come back -- Monarch of dreams -- Pugilist and poet -- Rendezvous of light -- Beyond the dip of bell -- Poetry of the portfolio -- Me-come! My dazzled face -- Because I could not stop.

Summary:

The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson--recluse, poet--and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist.

ISBN:

9781400044016
1400044014

OCLC:

(OCoLC)212855015

LCCN:

2008011770

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

DJPD353 -- Hampton Public Library (Hampton)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)