My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

6 best books like My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Alfred Habegger): The Body: A Guide for Occupants, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, Anne Sexton: A Biography, My Emily Dickinson

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Author	Bill Bryson
ISBN	0385539304

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

Author	Alan Taylor
ISBN	0679773002

An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic. Taylor...

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

Author	Emily Dickinson
ISBN	0963818368

For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century...

Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

Author	Helen Vendler
ISBN	0674048679

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's...

Anne Sexton: A Biography

Author	Diane Wood Middlebrook
ISBN	0679741828

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to...

My Emily Dickinson

Author	Susan Howe
ISBN	0938190520

My Emily Dickinson does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry.

This is more personal than a biography in that it is...