Howe, in My Emily Dickinson, writes on how the New England Calvinists grappled with "a mystical vision of grace as free imaginative force" (46)
she describes it as "a civil war in the Calvinist soul," (47) with some wanting to "smother the arbitrary power of Jehovah" even while "[g]race often visited the elect, with visionary intensity born in ecstasy and trance."
She describes grace as a "[d]omain of creative immediacy and intellectual beauty"
> from Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson (1985)
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