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1938

Format:	Book
Author:	Whicher, George F. (George Frisbie), 1889-1954, author.
Title:	This was a poet : a critical biography of Emily Dickinson / by George Frisbie Whicher.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Charles Scribner's Sons ; London : Charles Scribner's Sons, Ltd, 1938. ©1938
Description:	xiii, 337 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Subjects:	Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Women poets -- Biography.
Genre:	Biographies.
Other Author:	Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.
Notes:	Frontispiece portrait of Emily Dickinson. Includes "Bibliographical postscript": pages 311-329 and index.
Contents:	PART ONE: THE LITTLE TIPPLER. The village -- Family portraits -- Amherst -- Mount Holyoke Female Academy PART TWO: TUTORS AND SHEPHERDS : LATER YEARS. An amethyst remembrance -- Rowing in Eden -- Literary friends -- Society in solitude PART THREE: THE SOURCES OF A STYLE. Seeing New Englandy -- American humor -- Emerson -- Books and reading PART FOUR: POETRY AS PLAYMATE. Thoughts in the gown -- Minims of nature -- The leaf at love turned back -- The landscape of the soul.
LCCN:	38028929
Other Number:	1118604
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Call Number:	811 Dickinso

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