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Product Description: Hailed in the mid-nineteenth century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was a close friend of William C. Bryant, an associate of Charles Dickens and Washington Irving, and a celebrity sought out by John Jacob Astor and American presidents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780299168001 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Hailed in the mid-nineteenth century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was a close friend of William C.

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9780299168049 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Hailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed the American Byron and had a large general readership despite his work's infusion of homosexual themes.

An exploration of the impact of the Civil War upon the poet and his work chronicles medical conditions faced by the War's wounded, examines the sociological effects of the war, and offers insight into the latter half of the poet's career. (view table of contents)

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9780195124828 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 27, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the impact of the Civil War upon the poet and his work chronicles medical conditions faced by the War's wounded, examines the sociological effects of the war, and offers insight into the latter half of the poet's career.

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9780195147094 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 20, 2001, cover price $39.99

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9780826314499 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $42.50

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9780826351746 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 15, 2012), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: In Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story Professor Jerome Loving provides an intuitive and 'interiorized' reading of the poet's most important works. Using biographical matters as a frame for his interpretations, Loving demonstrates how Dickinson's life is bound up with any series reading of her work...read more

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9780521327817, titled "Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story" | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $51.99 | also contains Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story | About this edition: In Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story Professor Jerome Loving provides an intuitive and 'interiorized' reading of the poet's most important works.

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Product Description: It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negative as that in Boston's Christian Register, which spoke of Whitman as someone who “succeeded in writing a mass of trash without form, rhythm, or vitality...read more
By Gary Schmidgall (editor) and Horace Traubel (editor)

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9780877459729 | Univ of Iowa Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame.

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An encyclopedic guide to the American poet includes entries on his works and characters, biographical information, influential people in his life, important places, and literary terms relevant to his writings.

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9780816057689 | Facts on File, December 1, 2005, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: An encyclopedic guide to the American poet includes entries on his works and characters, biographical information, influential people in his life, important places, and literary terms relevant to his writings.

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Product Description: By the end of her life, Emily Dickinson lived in virtual isolation in her family’s home, refusing any contact with strangers. Though she attracted local renown as a recluse, her reputation as one of America’s finest and most original poets was established only posthumously; her works, numbering nearly two thousand, were virtually all unpublished at the time of  her death...read more

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9781843913061 | Hesperus Pr, April 30, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: By the end of her life, Emily Dickinson lived in virtual isolation in her family’s home, refusing any contact with strangers.

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By Cristanne Miller (editor)

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9780534350758, titled "Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey" | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, December 1, 1997, cover price $102.95 | also contains Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey

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9781609383916 | Univ of Iowa Pr, January 1, 2016, cover price $55.00

Product Description: Book by Pollak, Vivian R.

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9780801416057 | Cornell Univ Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $36.50

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9780801493706 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, May 1, 1986), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Pollak, Vivian R.

Product Description: This work focuses on Robinson's response to and reaction against the historical events, personalities and tendencies of America from the time of his birth in the "Gilded Age" to the "New Deal".

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9780889465572 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: This work focuses on Robinson's response to and reaction against the historical events, personalities and tendencies of America from the time of his birth in the "Gilded Age" to the "New Deal".

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Product Description: Book by Dickenson, Donna

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9780907582885 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 1, 1985, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: Book by Dickenson, Donna

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9780907582694 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 1, 1985, cover price $39.95

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Presents selections from the author's poems along with a chronology of Dickinson's life and times. (view table of contents)

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9780460878951 | Everyman, October 1, 1997, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Presents selections from the author's poems along with a chronology of Dickinson's life and times.
9780394747668 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the nineteenth century American poet, analyzes her most important poems, and attempts to portray her complex personality

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Product Description: Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between her life and her poetry. It is a vivid portrait of the poet and her times as well as a fascinating interpretive study of the poems that will enable every reader to approach them with new understanding and delight...read more

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9780394544182 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1986, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the nineteenth-century American poet and analyzes all of her major poems

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9780201168099 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, January 21, 1988), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the nineteenth-century American poet and analyzes all of her major poems

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9781439514207 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between her life and her poetry.

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Offers a brief profile of Emily Dickinson, analyzes her major poems, and discusses the themes and style of her work

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9780826404411 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers a brief profile of Emily Dickinson, analyzes her major poems, and discusses the themes and style of her work

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9780837152080 | Reprint edition (Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1971), cover price $96.00

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9780313322068 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 2004, cover price $43.00

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9781137033055 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2013, cover price $95.00

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9781137543691 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2013), cover price $29.00

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Selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1998, this fascinating biography by Roger Lundin shows why Emily Dickinson is not only one of America's finest poets but also one of the major religious thinkers of her age.

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9780802838575, titled "Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief" | Eerdmans Pub Co, June 1, 1998, cover price $24.00

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9780802821270, titled "Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief" | 2 edition (Eerdmans Pub Co, February 1, 2004), cover price $27.00
9780802801579 | Eerdmans Pub Co, June 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1998, this fascinating biography by Roger Lundin shows why Emily Dickinson is not only one of America's finest poets but also one of the major religious thinkers of her age.

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