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Emily Dickinson selected her own society, and it was rarely that of other people. She preferred the solitude of her white-washed poet’s room, or the birds, bees, and flowers of her garden, to the visitations of family and friends. But for three occasions in her life she never left her native Amherst, Massachusetts; for the last 20 of her 56 years, she rarely left her house. And yet her reclusive existence in no way restricted her abundant life of the imagination. Her letters and poems reveal her to be an inspired visionary and a true original of American literature.
Belle of Amherst
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born to a prominent Amherst family on December 10, 1830. A successful lawyer and later Congressman and judge, Dickinson’s father had been a founder of Amherst College. Dickinson’s girlhood was spent in the usual flurry of feminine activities of the day. She enjoyed a reputation as the witty Belle of Amherst for a time, and she spent a year away from home at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, from 1847 to 1848.
Somewhere in her late teens, however, Dickinson began to sense her “otherness.” At Holyoke she refused to confess her Congregationalist faith. After her return home, she began to write her first serious poems, though she kept these jealously guarded to herself. In 1856, her adored older brother Austin married Susan Gilbert, and came to live next door to the paternal homestead. Susan offered the poet support, friendship, and understanding throughout their lives, and it was to Susan that Emily confided a few of her poems.
Recluse
The early 1860’s saw Dickinson withdraw even deeper into herself, perhaps as the result of an emotional crisis whose origins elude biographers. She seemed to prefer distance to social intercourse–she would decline an invitation to her brother’s house in an exquisitely crafted poem, for example–and she was far more comfortable in literary relationships, maintaining an active, intimate, even passionate correspondence with literary and religious figures from the outside world such as Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who visited her twice in Amherst, the Reverend Charles Wadsworth, and Samuel Bowles, the editor of the Springfield Republican, which had published a few of her verses.
After Emily’s death in 1886, Mabel Loomis Todd, a cultured and beautiful socialite, who was also her brother Austin’s mistress, sought Higginson’s assistance in publishing three editions of Emily’s poems and two volumes of her letters, which initially won Dickinson recognition as a minor eccentric poet. Her true genius has only been acknowledged more recently, as her cryptic language, dense symbols, fragmentary thought, and punctuation have been decoded to reveal a voice of mystic clarity and fiery individuality. Her work charts the landscape of a human soul, whose self-imposed confines conversely became agents of imaginative transformation.
Called Back
To the tiny New England graveyard, across the fields where in girlhood Emily Dickinson had watched the funeral cortèges wend their way, a solemn procession carried the white-robed remains of the poet, who died in her home on May 15, 1886. The epitaph her sister Lavinia later had inscribed on her tombstone–“E.D. Called Back”–tersely reminds visitors of a life lived in realms beyond the temporal.
–Thomas Hampson and Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold, PBS I Hear America Singing
Photo: Academy of American Poets
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A Horse With Wings
Composer(s): Ricky Ian Gordon
Song(s): Once I Was
Sweet Song
Afternoon on a Hill
My Sister's New Red Hat
A Horse with Wings
Air
Poem (Lana Turner has Collapsed)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Spring and the Fall
Souvenir
Coyotes
The Red Dress
What Shall We Remember?
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Sycamore Trees
Fewer Words
The Special Picnic
Janet Underneath the Roses
I am a Cherry Alive
An Old-Fashioned Song
White Haired Woman
Arthur Farwell Sheet Music
(Emily Dickinson songs)
Buy via Boosey & HawkesChilde Emilie
Composer(s): Leo Smit
Song(s): 1. I was the slightest in the House
2. Through lane it lay - through bramble
3. It troubled me as once I was
4. The Child's faith is new
5. Softened by Time's consummate plush
6. Papa above!
7. We talked as Girls do
8. They shut me up in Prose
9. I cried at Pity - not at Pain
10. Let Us play Yesterday
11. A loss of something ever felt I
12. Good Morning - Midnight
13. Up Life's Hill with my little Bundle
14. I'm ceded - I've stopped being Theirs
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano, Soprano
Buy via Theodore Presser CompanyDays and Nights
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Along With Me
2. They Might Not Need Me
3. The Night has a Thousand Eyes
4. Over the Fence
5. Song
6. Wild Nights
Four Dickinson Songs
Composer(s): Robert Beaser
Song(s): 1. A Word is Dead
2. It Was Not Death
3. I Dwell in Possibility
4. We Never Know How High We Are
Four Dickinson Songs (High Key)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Will There Really Be a Morning?
2. I'm Nobody
3. She Died
4. If I...
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFour Dickinson Songs (Low key)
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Will There Really Be a Morning?
2. I'm Nobody
3. She Died
4. If I...
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsIn This Short Life
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. Some Keep the Sabbath
2. I Stepped From Plank to Plank
3. In This Short Life
Life Signs: Six Songs on Texts by Emily Dickinson
Composer(s): Robert G. Patterson
Song(s): 1. Surgeons must be very careful!
2. I Years had been from Home
3. The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea
4. A little Snow was here and there
5. I’m Nobody! Who are you?
6. I should not dare to leave my friend
Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Composer(s): Otto Luening
Song(s): 1. Our Share of Night to Bear
2. The Show is Not the Show
3. Hope is the Thing with Feathers
4. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
5. Experiment to Me
6. I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind
7. Few Yet Enough
8. Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?
9. When I Hoped, I Feared
Songs By John Duke, Vol. 1
Composer(s): John Duke
Song(s): 1. When the Rose Is Brightest (Nathaniel Parker Willis)
2. Stopping by Woods on а Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
3. The Puritan's Ballad (Elinor Wylie)
4. Midcentury Love Letter (Phyllis McGinley)
5. All Beauty Calls You to Me (Sara Teasdale)
6. Listen, I Love You (Sara Teasdale)
7. I am so weak а Thing (Sara Teasdale)
8. All Things in the World Can Rest, But I (Sara Teasdale)
9. Oh, My Love (Sara Teasdale)
10. Renouncement (Alice Meynell)
11. Noonday (Traditional Chinese)
12. Through Your Window (Traditional Chinese)
13. The Shoreless Sea (Traditional Chinese)
14. New Feet within My Garden Go (Emily Dickinson)
15. The Rose did Caper on Her Cheek (Emily Dickinson)
16. Have You Got а Brook in Your Little Heart? (Emily Dickinson)
17. I Taste а Liquor Never Brewed (Emily Dickinson)
18. The Better Part (George Santayana)
Voice Type: High
Buy via Keiser / Southern MusicLate Summer
Composer(s): Tom Cipullo
Song(s): 1. Crickets
2. As Summer Into Autumn Slips
3. Touch Me
One Bee and Revery
Composer(s): Lori Laitman
Song(s): 1. The Butterfly Upon
2. Hope is a Strange Invention
3. To Make a Prairie
Simple Songs
Composer(s): David Leisner
Song(s): 1. Exultation
2. Beauty
3. Madness
4. Letter
5. Humility
6. Simplicity
Six Songs
Composer(s): Ernst Bacon
Song(s): 1. The Banks of the Yellow Sea
2. Ancient Christmas Carol
3. Omaha
4. No Dew Upon the Grass
5. A Clear Midnight
6. World, Take Good Notice
Songs from Emily Dickinson
Composer(s): Ernst Bacon
Song(s): As If the Sea Should Part
Let down the bars
O friend
The grass so little has to do
A threadless way
The postponeless Creature
I'm Nobody
My river runs to thee
How still the bells
The sun went down
The grass so little has to do
Savior
She went as quiet as the dew
Wild nights
Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature, time and space Vol. 1
Composer(s): Ernst Bacon
Song(s): Is There Such a Thing as Day?
Alabaster Wool (Snowfall)Simple days
A spider
On this wondrous sea
A drop fell on the apple tree
Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature, time and space Vol.2
Composer(s): Ernst Bacon
Song(s): Velvet people
A wind like a bugle
The morns are meeker
Clover
Nature, the gentlest mother
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsSyllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush
Composer(s): Juliana Hall
Song(s): To Eudocia C. Flynt
To T.W. Higginson
To Emily Fowler
To Samuel Bowles the younger
To Eugenia Hall
To Susan Gilbert
To Susan Gilbert II
Quiet Airs
Composer(s): Ernst Bacon
Song(s): 1. Twilight
2. Gentle Greeting
3. The Divine Ship
4. Of Love
5. Eden
6. The Little Stone
7. Fond Affection
8. Stars
9. The Heart
10. Song of Snow-White Heads
11. The Lamb
12. To Musique, To Becalme His Fever
The White Diadem
Composer(s): Leo Smit
Song(s): 1. I reckon - when I count at all
2. I dwell in Possibility
3. The Martyr Poets - did not tell
4. The Poets light but Lamps
5. I would not paint - a picture
6. To pile like Thunder to its close
7. Me - come! My dazzled face
Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano, Soprano
Buy via Theodore Presser CompanyThirty-Four Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson, Vol. 1
Composer(s): Arthur Farwell
Buy via Boosey & HawkesThirty-Four Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, Vol. 2
Composer(s): Arthur Farwell
Buy via Boosey & HawkesThree Dickinson Songs
Composer(s): André Previn
Song(s): 1. As Imperceptibly as grief
2. Will there really be a morning?
3. Good Morning, Midnight
Voice Type: Soprano
Buy via Hal LeonardTwelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Composer(s): Aaron Copland
Song(s): 1. Nature, the Gentlest Mother
2. There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
3. Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
4. The World Feels Dusty
5. Heart, We Will Forget Him
6. Dear March, Come In!
7. Sleep is Supposed to Be
8. When They Come Back
9. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
10. I've Heard an Organ Talk Sometimes
11. Going to Heaven!
12. The Chariot