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Readings on Emily Dickinson, Tamara Johnson, book editor

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-146) and index

index present

non fiction

Readings on Emily Dickinson

bibliography

35651043

Tamara Johnson, book editor

Greenhaven Press literary companion to American authors

Critical essays explore the life and poetic themes of American poet Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson : a biography -- Emily Dickinson : the woman and the poet: Dickinson constructed her own elusive image / by Joyce Carol Oates. A difficult poet to know / by Helen McNeil. Dickinson's need for seclusion / by Adrienne Rich. Dickinson was misunderstood by those closest to her / by Amy Lowell. Why Emily Dickinson wore white / by Kathryn Whitford. Dickinson found significance in minor events / by Ella Gilbert Ives. Emily Dickinson's Puritan heritage / by John Robinson. Emily Dickinson ranks among world's greatest poets / by Allen Tate -- Poetic analysis: Two explications / by Nancy Lenz Harvey and Thomas H. Johnson. Diverging vciewpoints on a classic poem / by Gerhard Friedrich, John Ciardi, and Caroline Hogue. An explication of "The first day's night had come" / by Constance Rooke. Editorial decisions affect Dickinson collections / by Marta L. Werner -- Dickinson's poetic themes: Dickinson's poems lack essential elements / by R.P. Blackmur. Emily Dickinson's vision of "circumference" / by Jane Langton. Dickinson acquired a unique understanding of faith / by Richard Wilbur. Emily Dickinson's feminist humor / by Suzanne Juhasz, Christanne Miller, and Martha Nell Smith. Naming as a strategy in Dickinson's poems / by Sharon Cameron. Dickinson's tone of voice lends credibility to difficult subjects / by Archibald MacLeish. Play as a theme in Dickinson's poems / by Anand Rao Thota. Dickinson's style broke with convention / by Cheryl Walker

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