The Spirituality of Emily Dickinson - a podcast by Daniel Dal Monte

In this podcast, I discuss the spirituality of the great American poet, Emily Dickinson. Dickinson was not a doctrinaire Christian, and had a deep suspicion of organized religion in general. Nevertheless, she refused to succumb to materialism, in spite of her fears that death might be the end of consciousness. She was aware of the limitations of space and time, and how the spatiotemporal framework need not capture reality in its entirety. I provide certain poems that give examples of this individualistic spirituality that embraces both feelings of transcendence while at the same time recognizing a profound sense of spiritual isolation. I bases my comments on a scholarly article "Love, Terror, and Transcendence in Emily Dickinson's Poetry," by Glenn Hughes, in Vol. 66, Issue 4 in the journal Renascence.

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