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Emily Dickinson is undoubtedly one of the biggest poets ever, but she has come to us as an peculiar and helpless woman living a life of self applied enforced seclusion. Lyndall Gordon considers instead a volcanic persona living on her behalf own conditions and with a steely self-assurance in her own talent; a woman whose family feuded over a hothouse of adultery and devastating betrayal and a woman who acquired her own key. After her death the deal with for possession of Emily and her poetry became the feud's emphasis.'Lives Like Loaded Guns has damaged one of poetry's most long lasting enigmas . . . It rescues Dickinson from the image of the passive, heart-broken recluse. It really is a valuable monument to a poet even more incredible than we realised' Olivia Cole, Financial TimesFrom the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James.
