Mystical Prayer: The Poetic Example of Emily Dickinson

by Charles M. Murphy

Book Overview

In this book, Charles Murphy explores the still unfolding rediscovery of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), our foremost American poet, as a mystic of profound depth and ambition. She declined publication of almost all of her hundreds of poems during her lifetime, describing them as a record of her wrestling with God, who, in the Puritan religious tradition she received, she found cold and remote. Murphy places Dickinson's writings within the Christian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081468470X
• ISBN13: 9780814684702
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 6.9"