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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Brenda Wineapple

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#2736 of 3,809 books · #985 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2008).

White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America's most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public. As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a literary figure who ran guns to Kansas and commanded the first Union regiment of black soldiers. When Dickinson sent Higginson four of her poems he realized he had encountered a wholly original genius; their intense correspondence continued for the next quarter century. In White Heat Brenda Wineapple tells an extraordinary story about poetry, politics, and love, one that sheds new light on her subjects and on the roiling America they shared.

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Literary friendshipEmily Dickinson's poetryCivil War-era America

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