Emily-Dickinson美国诗人狄金森的生平及写作.pptVIP

--- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886) 孤 Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the second child of a prominent family. ? Emily Dickinsons grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, had almost single-handedly founded Amherst College. Amherst College is a?1000-acre private?liberal arts college?located in?Amherst with about 1600 students. It was ranked as the second best liberal arts college in the U.S.A. by?U.S. News World Report, and ninth out of all U.S. colleges and universities by?Forbes in 2015. The Dickinson Homestead The Evergreen, next door to Homestead (1856) Benjamin Newton Charles Wadsworth Thomas Higginson Poems?by Emerson.? Presented to Emily Dickinson by Benjamin Newton, August 1849. Benjamin Newton “My Father’s Law Student” (L750), “My earliest friend,” “My dying Tutor” (L265), “The first of my own friends” (L110), “a gentle, yet grave Preceptor” (L153) “an elder brother, loved indeed very much” (L153) – these were all phrases Emily Dickinson employed in speaking of Benjamin Franklin Newton Charles Wadsworth Circumference thou Bride of Awe by Circumference thou Bride of AwePossessing thou shalt bePossessed by every hallowed KnightThat dares to covet thee Charles Wadsworth may have been the model for the lover in her poems A married, middle-aged minister. She is unmarried all her life Thomas Wentworth Higginson and daughter Thomas Wentworth Higginson correspondent, advisor editor A prominent critic, writer social activist Poems by Emily Dickinson(1890) Recluse and the woman in white Emily seldom left Amherst * She entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (1847-1848). *She went to Washington D.C and Philadelphia (1845) *She made two or three trips to Boston. * Dickinson twice spends many months in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for treatment of a severe eye ailment.(1864 1865) Late 1860s, Dickinson’s period of intense reclusion begins. She scarcely left her own house and yard, but kept in touch