This is the most profound and challenging interpretation of Dickinson I have ever encountered. It certainly should be on the required reading list of any serious scholar attempting to understand the true spirit of Dickinson. The book does a wonderful job of demonstrating Dickinson's place within her time and society. It forces the reader to reconsider conventional views on the "why" of Dickinson's poetry. Beth Maclay Doriani has done a superb job. I look forward to Doriani's next work.

MacKenzie's concordance provides an invaluable new resource to scholars and serious readers of Emily Dickinson. The reference covers all of the over 1000 surviving letters of the poet from the Johnson 3-volume edition.

Not since the Rosenbaum concordance to the poems which appeared in 1964 has a resource been made available that will garner such prolonged interest and use from scholars. With each entry, MacKenzie provides the year (Johnson's dating when the original letter is undated), the frequency of use, the Johnson volume and letter number, page, and line number. In addition, each entry has a brief context from the original sentence in which it appears.

For a poet about whom so little is known and for whom words were so few and so well chosen, a concordance provides surprising and enlightening insights. With the increased attention paid to the letters in recent scholarship, this reference could not be produced and made available too soon for those involved in Dickinson studies.

An extraordinary achievement, this is a reference with a long shelf life that belongs in any university library collection and in private libraries of those who enjoy the richness of Dickinson's words.

I have read Emma Tupper's Diary 50 times, as a child and adult. Adventure, mystery, interpersonal relationships, wry humour, and the most stunning setting in the lochs of Scotland. I wanted to believe that plesiosaurs really had survived the Ice Age and were living in a loch in the Highlands, as the premise the book sets out for this is so convincing. This is an intelligent, entertaining book and I am sure you will want to reread it too.

I purchased this book as I sought to more fully understand the issues behind Calvinism, and the specific doctrines generally held by those of that dispensation.

I was very pleased to find a thorough, Biblically backed up presentation of those very issues I had questions about. Not only was each chapter clearly presented in an easy to follow format, but the technical format of the book made it easy on the eyes. The vocabulary used in the text may cause you to keep a dictionary handy during your reading sessions, but other than this I found the book easy to follow.

Those of you seeking to understand what the 'five points of Calvinism' are and the manner in which they apply in a practical fashion to your life would do well to read this text.

Peter Dickinson's amazing book is absolutely amazing! Davy has a gift passed on by his ancestor - who has done a great deed for this certain man. As a reward, he was given a wish. He wished that he could read other people's minds. It is extremely scary when Davy discovers that he and his family are in serious danger because this man, who Davy had named "WOLF" is trying to kill them!

The presentation of the gift is a gift in itself if you get your inspiration from this book. It includes not only gift wrap, but other stunning ways to present your gift. It would make a small or inexpensive gift look like a $1,000,000. "It's that thought that counts" really would. You surely could find a way to wrap any gift. What I like is the inspiration from the sea, nature, India, the Orient and paper arts. A suggestion - I would wrap the top and bottom separately and attach ribbons and embellishments in a way that the whole thing could be reused. These simply are too beautiful and time consuming to be ripped apart and trashed!

Textbooks on the history of philosophy tend to be remotely dry. They just summarize the text in arid words, and then skip to the next philosopher in the chronicle order. Writers of those textbook seem to think that we should rever the philopophers, do not understand them. Reading through them only gives us the superficial impression and worse, the knowledge we¡¯ve got is likely to be evaporated to the oblivion. We can¡¯t imagine that those philosophers lived their own life and breathed the air just like us. But the texts they left to us have what to say. And it¡¯s closely related to its own time. To understand those texts, we need to know their worlds, for the text says about the world it¡¯s written. Greek philosophy and literature also should be apprehended with such background knowledge. For example, there were no professional philosophers isolated from the rest of the society in Archaic Greek world, like professors of philosophy we could see in our Universities. Greek philosophers told about their worldly affairs. So Aristotle was mastered that much various fields from political sciences, ethics, aesthetics, cosmology to botany. In other word, we should know their life to figure out what they say at all. Greek philosophy was not isolated from the society unlike contemporary philosophy. This book should be definitely helpful to know their time. As the title of the book implies, this deals with how the Greek saw their world. Each chapter describes the way they see elements of their world from the religion, the state, the individual, to the art. With closing the last page of the book, I bet you could illustrate what was the life of the Greek in your mind.

Heartsease continues The Changes Trilogy, Margaret and Jonathan are still traped in a modern-medevil England in which the populace is irrationally afraid of technology. They must survive to find a solution to possibly restore the island to its proper form

When I was a freshman in high school, I was asked to recite a poem in front of my class. I hadn't ever read poetry before and wandered the rows of poetry in my school's library aimlessly. I came upon a tiny book titled I Became Alone and picked it up. Its title immediately caught my attention. I saw it was a collection of 5 women poets I hadn't ever heard of. I chose it, following my instincts. That evening, I sat down and read the entire book. It was so good and full of excellent poems. Now, five years later, I have finally found it again here at amazon.com. I cannot wait to read it again; hopefully, they can find it for me. I highly recommend purchasing this book. You will never own a more satisfying work of poetry.

Inflections of the Pen, although a scholarly work, makes fascinating reading even for those of us not particularly schooled in the mystical work of Emily Dickinson. Crumbley combines masterfully poetic detective work with his own elegance of language to create a piece of work that both honors its subject and offers a first-ever look inside the mind of an ever-elusive writer. Even those untrained in the academics of poetry will find entrancement here. Additionally, I found it inspired me to look at other poets' work with a refreshed and inquiring eye. Thank you,Dr. Crumbley, for this remarkable tome.