Miss Emily’s Fire: The Orthodox Elements in Emily Dickinson’s Spirituality and Mysticism

Publication Data: Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 2012
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 60
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.3 cm × 13.8 cm × 0.5 cm
Additional Information: two-color printing, full-color illustrations
ISBN: 978‒0‒911165‒97‒5

   
Archbishop Chrysostomos

Number XLV of Monographic Supplement Series

“My purpose, here, is to take Dickinson’s religious language for what it is, as naïve and ingenuous as that goal may seem to those schooled in poetic interpretation. My reading of her poetry, over some decades, has convinced me that her theological and spiritual intuitions are far more understandable to an Eastern Orthodox believer than to religious—and non-religious—scholars formed in the Western Christian spiritual milieu. The latter variously describe her as a self-proclaimed pagan, an atheist, or a believer with diverse confessional deficits, depending on the extent of their religiosity or their doctrinal persuasion. In discussing her poetry, I will quite simply explore what I see as Dickinson’s clearly Orthodox sensitivities.”
—“PREFATORY REMARKS”

CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements
      About the Author
      Dedication
Miss Emily’s Fire
   Prefatory Remarks
   1 A Biographical Sketch of Emily Dickinson
   2 Emily Dickinson’s Spiritual Life and World
   Selected Bibliography of Books Consulted
   Index