| Description |
154 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Greenhaven Press literary companion to American authors
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-146) and index. |
| Contents |
Emily Dickinson : a biography -- Emily Dickinson : the woman and the poet -- Dickinson constructed her own elusive image / Joyce Carol Oates -- Difficult poet to know / Helen McNeil -- Dickinson's need for seclusion / Adrienne Rich -- Dickinson was misunderstood by those closest to her / Amy Lowell -- Why Emily Dickinson wore white / Kathryn Whitford -- Dickinson found significance in minor events / Ella Gilbert Ives -- Emily Dickinson's Puritan heritage / John Robinson -- Emily Dickinson ranks among world's greatest poets / Allen Tate -- Poetic analysis -- Two explications / Nancy Lenz Harvey and Thomas H. Johnson -- Diverging viewpoints on a classic poem / Gerhard Friedrich, John Ciardi, and Caroline Hogue -- Explication of "The first day's night had come" / Constance Rooke -- Editorial decisions affect Dickinson collections / Marta L. Werner -- |
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Dickinson's poetic themes -- Dickinson's poems lack essential elements / R. P. Blackmur -- Emily Dickinson's vision of "circumference" / Jane Langton -- Dickinson acquired a unique understanding of faith / Richard Wilbur -- Emily Dickinson's feminist humor / Suzanne Juhasz, Christanne Miller, and Martha Nell Smith -- Naming as a strategy in Dickinson's poems / Sharon Cameron -- Dickinson's tone of voice lends credibility to difficult subjects / Archibald MacLeish -- Play as a theme in Dickinson's poems / Anand Rao Thota -- Dickinson's style broke with convention / Cheryl Walker. |
| Subject |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Tamara.
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| Added Title |
Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN |
1565106342 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1565106350 (lib. : alk. paper) |
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