Sweeney, editor of A Course in Desert Spirituality by Thomas Merton This book now demonstrates, more than 130 years after Emily Dickinson's death, how we're only beginning to see her poems for what they were."Jon M. Thomas Traherne's meditations were rescued from a trash heap after the author's death. "Margery Kempe's autobiography was lost for 400 years. No one who reads this book will ever think quite the same again about her poetry."Paul Lakeland, Fairfield University, author of The Wounded Angel: Fiction and the Religious Imagination In brief compass and with great care, Murphy enlarges our sense of the possibilities that Dickinson's genius lays before us. "Charles Murphy's examination of Emily Dickinson's poetry in the Christian mystical tradition adds another layer to the growing corpus of serious treatments of her work as so much more than simply private lyric verse.
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