"New England in the mid-19th century was a literary hothouse, overgrown with wild and exotic talents. That Emily Dickinson was among the most dazzling of these is not disputable, but to say that she was obscure in her own time would exaggerate her celebrity. A handful of her poems appeared in print while she was alive (she died in 1886, at 55), but she preferred private rituals of publication, carefully writing out her verses and sewing them into booklets. Though she had no interest in fame, Dickinson was anything but an amateur scribbler, approaching her craft with unstinting discipline and tackling mighty themes of death, time and eternity. She remains a paradoxical writer: vividly present on the page but at the same time persistently elusive. The more familiar you are with her work, the stranger she becomes. An admirer can be forgiven for approaching 'A Quiet Passion,' Terence Davies’s new movie about Dickinson’s life, with trepidation. ..."
NY Times: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson (Video)
New Yorker: A Masterly Emily Dickinson Movie
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YouTube: A QUIET PASSION Trailer | Festival 2016
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