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Additional authors

1. Young, Veronica L.
2. New York Center for Visual History, Inc.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. This program uses period costumes, interiors and dramatized sequences to re-create the world of the prolific 19th-century poet, Emily Dickinson and to negate the stereotypical view that she was a solitary, neurotic woman. Against historical and family backgrounds, biographer Richard Sewall, poets Adrienne Rich and Anthony Hecht, and writer Joyce Carol Oates discuss the brilliance of her work and how it reflects a Shakespearean range of experience. Called a "realist of the interior," Dickinson treated the metaphysical and psychological aspects of love, loss, pain, fear, death and joy. Actress Jane Alexander reads the poet's poems and letters.

Series statement

1. (Voices and visions)

Uniform title

1. Voices & visions (Television program)

Subject

1. Literature
2. Women poets
3. Poets, American
4. Authors, American
5. Women authors
6. Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

Credits (note)

1. Director, Veronica L. Young.

Performer (note)

1. Mary Layne, Leslie Geraci, John R. Jaeger.

Title

1. Emily Dickinson [videorecording] / Jill Janows; a New York Center for Visual History production.

Imprint

1. Santa Barbara, CA : Intellimation, 1988.

Series

1. (Voices and visions)

Credits

1. Director, Veronica L. Young.

Cast

1. Mary Layne, Leslie Geraci, John R. Jaeger.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Reserve Film and Video Collection Special Collections material

Added author

1. Young, Veronica L.
2. New York Center for Visual History, Inc.

Added title

1. Voices & visions (Television program)

Branch call number

1. VTH 1308 E