Videos about Emily Dickinson

The Belle of Amherst
Starring Julie Harris, who won a Tony award for her role in  the play written by William Luce.  Directed by Charles S. Dubin.


Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson

Reviewer: Richard O. Follett (richfoll@yahoo.com) from Virginia, USA Nov. 9, 1999
This astonishing video performance of Julie Harris' one-woman show about poetess Emily Dickinson's life and work is a true tour-de-force. Ms. Harris' range of expression both physically and vocally evokes Emily Dickinson so precisely that one can hardly imagine that she ever looked or sounded any other way. The poems which are featured in this script are so deftly and subtly interwoven that the entire presentation feels seamless and eminently REAL. I am a Theatre Arts/Speech teacher at a small High School in Virginia, and my students are perpetually astonished at the humor and relevance of a video made more than twenty years ago - usually, they want to tune out anything "old". This is a rich and sumptuous piece of living literature with a tremendously broad appeal - not just Dickinson's poetry, but her unique life is showcased in this privileged interview. This is EXACTLY the kind of "living literature" that we need most in our homes and in our schools - by bringing authors and works of note to life, we can perpetuate the essential reverence for the power of the written word which has perennially distinguished our culture since ages past

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Voices & Visions: Emily Dickinson (1995)
From the back cover
Few poets have looked deeper into the center of being than Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Expressing both doubt and joy, her compressed and urgent poems swing from lucidity and wit to despair and death-obsession. This film illuminates the passionate genius of this unconventional recluse, recreating her environment, with commentary by Adrienne Rich, Joyce Carol Oates and others. A production of the New York Center for Visual History. Executive producer: Lawrence Pitkethly

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The Private World of Emily Dickinson
Sets the poetry of Emily Dickinson within the context of her New England  home and the influence this regional setting had upon her poetry.
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An Evening With Emily Dickinson-release date 12/14/99

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