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Reading Emily Dickinson with Brenda Wineapple

Study the dense, highly original and thrilling verse of Emily Dickinson.

Students will discuss Dickinson’s virtuosity in the context of her contemporaries, her region, life, friends, influence on writing, her deft use of language and the various issues (transcendentalism, abolition, feminism, fame) swirling around—and in—her stunning work.

Brenda Wineapple is the author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and a New York Times Notable Book. In 2012, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her newest book is Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877.

*4 Tuesday classes sessions.











When: Tue., Feb. 4, 2014 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: From $395
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Study the dense, highly original and thrilling verse of Emily Dickinson.

Students will discuss Dickinson’s virtuosity in the context of her contemporaries, her region, life, friends, influence on writing, her deft use of language and the various issues (transcendentalism, abolition, feminism, fame) swirling around—and in—her stunning work.

Brenda Wineapple is the author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and a New York Times Notable Book. In 2012, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her newest book is Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877.

*4 Tuesday classes sessions.

Buy tickets/get more info now