This is a study of Emily Dickinson's religious poetry, which is chiefly eschatological. She probed intently the four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Hell, and Heaven. She valued mortality chiefly because of its relationship to immortality, considering death a concomitant of immortality but not necessarily a temporal one. Ignoring traditional views of Heaven and neglecting self-fulfillment in a worldly sense, she came to believe that eternity is immanent in time and that immortality is encompassed with time proleptically in ...
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This is a study of Emily Dickinson's religious poetry, which is chiefly eschatological. She probed intently the four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Hell, and Heaven. She valued mortality chiefly because of its relationship to immortality, considering death a concomitant of immortality but not necessarily a temporal one. Ignoring traditional views of Heaven and neglecting self-fulfillment in a worldly sense, she came to believe that eternity is immanent in time and that immortality is encompassed with time proleptically in eternity.
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