From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 18:34:20 EDT
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An apology first.  I just sent mail that had no content.  I hope to do a bit
more here.

There are many biographies of Dickinson that do not portray her as a depressed
person, beyond the usual "down" feelings that all of us have.  Many of them
may be too long and too detailed for your purpose.  There is one, however,
that might be useful to you.  It is George Whicher's _This Was a Poet_.  It
was published in 1938 and therefore does not have new information that later
biographies do.  But it is a lovely book, written with joy, and expressing the
many sides of Dickinson--joy, naughtiness, sorrow, compassion.... The book
should be in your library. 

There may be shorter essays that express what you are looking for, but I don't
know them.  You're on a good track.  She was a many-sided genius.

Louis Forsdale