Emily Dickinson
Destination: New England Books and Play: The Belle of Amherst by William Luce; The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson; and a Recipe Autumn makes me think of New England, and New England makes me want to get out The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. In a former life, I played [...]
Feb
26
pen4hire on February 26th, 2009
Transcendentalism is fascinating not just for the compelling figures and ideas that made up the movement but also for the glimpse it affords us into the nineteenth century New England from which it sprang. While Transcendentalist thinkers got their inspiration in German philosophy, English poetry, and Far Eastern spirituality, the central ideas of Transcendentalism are [...]
