White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Brenda Wineapple

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson



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The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson???recluse, poet???and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist. Their friendship began in 1862. The Civil War was raging. Dickinson was thirty-one; Higginson, thirty-eight. A former pastor at the Free Church of Worcester, Massachusetts, he wrote often for the cultural magazine of the day, The Atlantic Monthly???on gymnastics, women???s rights, and slavery. His article ???Letter to a Young Contributor??? gave advice to readers who wanted to write for the magazine and offered tips on how to submit one???s work (???use black ink, good pens, white paper???). Among the letters Higginson received in response was one scrawled in looping, difficult handwriting. Four poems were enclosed in a smaller envelope. He deciphered the scribble: ???Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive???? Higginson read the poems. The writing was unique, uncategorizable. It was clear to him that this was ???a wholly new and original poetic genius,??? and the memory of that moment stayed with him when he wrote about it thirty years later. Emily Dickinson???s question inaugurated one of the least likely correspondences in American letters???between a man who ran guns to Kansas, backed John Brown, and would soon command the first Union regiment of black soldiers, and the erem.

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