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Dear friends:

Karin Gottshall told me recently that she had learned from a book
representative of a new biography of Dickinson by Roger Lundin, titled simply
Emily Dickinson.  Karin hadn't read it.  I checked it out at Amazon, and read
the Publishers Weekly blurb:  "In this readable, new biography of the
reclusive poet, Wheaton English Professor Lundin concentrates on Dickinson's
ambivalence toward Christianity and its effects on the self.  He traces her
inner debate through a careful analysis of Dickinson's poems and letters, and
he concludes that she was 'one of the major religious thinkers of her age'..."

Lundin's book was not mentioned in the most recent EDIS Journal nor in the
latest Bulletin.  Query:  has anybody in our group had a chance to read it?
What is the general reputation of Lundin?  I ask because I have at least 50
books on ED ahead of me, and I want to choose intelligently.

Thanks much,

Louis Forsdale