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Each of the album's 12 tracks is in some way a meditation on the passing of the Dickinsons' influential and colorful father.
Review: 'Keys to the Kingdom' by North Mississippi Allstars Post 2011
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Each of the album's 12 tracks is in some way a meditation on the passing of the Dickinsons' influential and colorful father.
Album review: North Mississippi Allstars, "Keys to the Kingdom" Bill Friskics-Warren 2011
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In the second part of the novel drama comes, but in a series of terrible events that the Dickinsons would never have wished for.
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The narrative is written with what I can only describe as a very light hand – there is such delicacy in the early stages of the representation; a cobwebby string of language brings the Dickinsons together in a life that looks so patterned and regular but which turns out to be utterly fragile and insecure.
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She describes the Dickinsons as a close-knit family, admiring of their stern father and their older brother, Austin; and even if their mother is somewhat distant and cool they move through life in steady union, bonded by love, duty and a strict adherence to routine.
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Well, I think that very soon after Mabel Loomis Todd arrived in town in 1881, the Dickinsons called on her, and then she was visiting their house very often.
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It seems that none of the Dickinsons -- mother, father, Vinnie or brother Austin -- understood the "Loaded Gun" of Emily's arrhythmic life and lines: her fierce privacy and the heartbreaking ellipses of her poems.
Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds" 2010
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How about Foggy Bottom hiring a few good 21st century Emily Dickinsons?
John Brown: Twittering; or, Where are the Emily Dickinsons at the State Department? 2009
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Looking at the Dickinsons in love, one gets some useful insights into the meaning and power of a difficult poet.
Op 2009
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She fearlessly feeds young readers a diet replete with the usual Tennysons, Kiplings, Dickinsons, Wordsworths and Stevensons.
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