β Scribed by Joan Kirkby (auth.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Emily Dickinsonβs Life: βI dwell in Possibility ββ....Pages 1-18
The Grammar of the Self: βThis loved Philologyβ....Pages 19-41
The Poetry of βAs Ifβ: βThe real β fictitious seemsβ....Pages 42-63
Poems of Gender: βTo hang our head β ostensibly ββ....Pages 64-86
The Gothic Mode: ββTis so appalling β it exhilarates ββ....Pages 87-109
Nature Writings: βThe dwelling earthwardβ....Pages 110-133
Dickinson Criticism: βKinsmen of the Shelfβ....Pages 134-148
Back Matter....Pages 149-163
Poetry and Poetics; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Literature, general; Gender Studies
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Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
Emily Dickinson led a quiet life, treasuring her privacy and eventually giving herself over completely to her art: it was in her poetry that she "deliberately decided to live" and there that she is most clearly revealed to us. Yet until now, no biography of this most enigmatic of American poets has
