The Visionary World of Emily Dickinson: Great Books Explained

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The popularity of Emily Dickinson's poetry has always been bound up with interest in her unconventional life. In her lifetime she was the focus of town gossip and this speculation continues today: about her mental health, her beliefs and her sexuality.

It was only when Emily Dickinson died aged 55, and the nearly two-thousand poems she wrote mostly on scraps of paper, began to be discovered, did it become clear that beneath the plain nondescript white dress, was a truly revolutionary artist, and a woman who refused to live by society’s rules.

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SUBTITLES
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Spanish Subtitles by Alma Perdomo

CREDITS
Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram https://instagram.com/brian_vfx?utm_m... and Behance www.behance.com/badsit88)

Sound Engineer and mixing: Robert Lewis

ACTOR
Liz Hopkinson (with help from Liam Gesoff)

MUSIC
Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12 in F major

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FILMS
A Quiet passion (2016), ©Hurricane Films
Wild Nights with Emily (2018), ©Greenwich entertainment
No Retreat from Destiny (2006), ©LionHeart Filmworks

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BOOKS
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson: A Literary Life by L. Wagner-Martin
The life and letters of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson: The Life and Legacy of the Famous American Poet by Charles River Editors
Emily Dickinson Face to Face by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Anthony Madrid

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