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10 best books like The Life of Emily Dickinson (Richard B. Sewall): Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, From the Terrace, Keats, Shelley: The Pursuit, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, John Donne: The Reformed Soul, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, Robert Frost: A Life, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0963818368
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...
From the Terrace
AuthorJohn O'Hara
ISBN0786706821

Two stars for effort. For the enormous effort it took to create this 981 page behemoth. 981 pages of tiny print and tiny margins. There are no chapters. Just little breaks in the text here and there.

I suspect if Ayn Rand and Herman Wouk birthed a novel together, this would be it.

According...
Keats
AuthorAndrew Motion
ISBN0226542408
Andrew Motion's dramatic narration of Keats's life is the first in a generation to take a fresh look at this great English Romantic poet. Unlike previous biographers, Motion pays close attention to the social and political worlds Keats inhabited. Making incisive use of the poet's inimitable letters,...
Shelley: The Pursuit
AuthorRichard Holmes
ISBN1590170377
Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmes—the finest literary biographer of our day—made his name. Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes projects a startling image of "a darker and more earthly, crueler and...
T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
AuthorLyndall Gordon
ISBN0393320936
In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in full...
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
AuthorHelen Vendler
ISBN0674048679
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...
John Donne: The Reformed Soul
AuthorJohn Stubbs
ISBN0393062600
Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from Plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns...
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
AuthorBenita Eisler
ISBN0679740856
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context...
Robert Frost: A Life
AuthorJay Parini
ISBN0805063412
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce...
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
AuthorMichael Gorra
ISBN0871404087
Henry James (1843 1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James 's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady...
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
AuthorChristopher E.G. Benfey
ISBN1594201609
A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought

At the close of the Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and consider the damage done. A Summer of Hummingbirds...
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
AuthorChristopher Logue
ISBN0374529299
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher...
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
AuthorBrenda Wineapple
ISBN1400044014
After p. 125

'Tis a puzzlement - this Book -
'Tis - or 'twas -
Or -
Perhaps a bit of both -

At End

I must add this title to the short list of biographical narratives that I consider perfect (not that my selection bears any significance beyond the edge of my desk), in the...
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorAlfred Habegger
ISBN0812966015
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography,...
My Emily Dickinson
AuthorSusan Howe
ISBN0938190520
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...
Lewis Carroll: A Biography
AuthorMorton N. Cohen
ISBN0679745629
Okay, there are a lot of theories about who CLD really was, what he was like, whether he was a pedophile or did drugs. A lot of people will downgrade books because they don't go along with their pet theories.

Fact is, this is a good biography that gives a lot of insight into the man. Whether it gives...
Edith Wharton
AuthorR.W.B. Lewis
ISBN0880640200
This biography of Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes when it came out. And I am only on p. 31 at this moment, but I am already finding a lot of thud moments in the writing. His big interpretations seem labored, prosaic, and debatable. I am simultaneously reading Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary...
John Keats
AuthorWalter Jackson Bate
ISBN0674478258
The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is deeply human and moral, in the most capacious sense of the words. In this authoritative biography--the first full-length life of Keats in almost forty...
Waking
AuthorRon Rash
ISBN1891885847
I was eager to read this most recent (2011) book of collected poetry by Ron Rash after reading his first three poetry offerings in recent weeks. Rash started with poetry and reviewers of his more recent novels note that as they praise his poetic use of words in his prose work. He is rapidly becoming more...
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