The English Department and the Furman University Libraries are joining to present:
“I’m Sorry for the dead…”
Emily Dickinson’s Civil War Poetry
April 12, 2012 – 4pm
Pitts Room, Duke Library, 2nd Floor
CLP
As the country celebrates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War (1861-1865) and National Poetry Month, this lecture will introduce students to the poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and specifically to her Civil War poetry. For years scholars believed that Dickinson overlooked the war in her poetry; now we know differently. Anne Flick, an Emily Dickinson scholar, will explain how Dickinson’s poetry reiterates the countrywide horror of death while struggling with her own concerns about death and dying.