Important quotes form Habegger...
"The frank erotic passion of Dickinson's mature poetry need not obscure her naivete as a young woman, when she could not allow sex, something 'low' and 'of the earth,' to have anything to do with the love that found fulfillment in 'heaven' (306).
"One of the biggest mistakes we make with Dickinson is to detach her from the religious currents of the 1850s, without which she could not have become herself" (310).
"The pattern running through these varied events - Mother's perplexing illness, Loring's failure, Norcross versus Norcross, the Panic, the A&B fiasco - was one of collapse and cover-up, of trouble too deep-seated to be examined in the light of day" (346).
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