In Our Time - Emily Dickinson
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Emily Dickinson, arguably the most startling and original poet in America in the C19th. According to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, her correspondent and mentor, writing 15 years after her death, "Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life and by her aversion to even a literary publicity." That was in 1891 and, as more of Dickinson's poems were published, and more of her remaining letters, the more the interest in her and appreciation of her grew. With her distinctive voice, her abundance, and her exploration of her private world, she is now seen by many as one of the great lyric poets.
With
Fiona Green
Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College
Linda Freedman
Lecturer in English and American Literature at University College London
and
Paraic Finnerty
Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Portsmouth
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2017.
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