Summer 2008 Workshops at Writers & Books

Reading Seminars

Dickinson Revealed

SA8-R03
1 Saturday, 10 a.m.–1p.m.
June 7
$35 W&B members / $39 general public
Instructor: Patricia Roth Schwartz

Who really was “The Belle of Amherst”? Learn from current research into the life and work of one of America’s greatest poets: what is myth and what is fact. Dickinson was not a recluse. She was not unpublished in her lifetime but rather, self-published. Which versions of her poems are correct, as she wrote them? What are the true subjects of much of her work? How did her biography become so obscured and distorted? Who really was her greatest love, and what influence did this have on her work? Informal presentation and discussion of her life and some of her poems. Bibliography and handouts. Bring a bag lunch if you wish.

Course Canceled

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