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Emily Dickinson’s Reception in the 1890s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 656

Emily Dickinson’s Reception in the 1890s

This work reprints, annotates, and indexes virtually all mention of Emily Dickinson in the first decade of her publication, tripling the known references to the poet during the nineties. Much of this material, drawn from scrapbooks of clippings, rare journals, and crumbling newspapers, was on the verge of extinction. Modern audiences will be struck by the impact of Dickinson's poetry on her first readers. We learn much about the taste of the period and the relationship between publishers, reviewers, and the reading public. It demonstrates that Dickinson enjoyed a wider popular reception than had been realized: readers were astonished by her creative brilliance.

Approaching Emily Dickinson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Approaching Emily Dickinson

"The book gives detailed attention to the principal trends in Dickinson scholarship during the past half-century: rhetorical and stylistic analysis of the poems and letters; biographical studies informed by theories of gender, sexuality, and by medical history; feminist studies of the poet's life and work; textual studies of the bound and unbound fascicles and the so-called worksheet drafts (or "scraps"); new assessments of the poet's social and cultural milieu, including influences on her spiritual sensibility; and of her theories of poetry, including lyricism."--BOOK JACKET.

Proofs of Genius
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Proofs of Genius

The first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre and its obscured role in shaping the American literary canon

Our Emily Dickinsons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Our Emily Dickinsons

Our Emily Dickinsons situates Dickinson's life and work within larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America. Examining Dickinson's influence on Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and others, Vivian R. Pollak complicates the connection between authorial biography and poetry that endures.

The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

The Gardens of Emily Dickinson

In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Judith Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the successful gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience: love and hate, wickedness and virtue, death and immortality. Gardening, Farr demonstrates, was Dickinson's other vocation, more public than the making of poems but analogous and closely related to it. Over a third of Dickinson's poems and nearly half of ...

Gender and the Poetics of Excess
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Gender and the Poetics of Excess

The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture employs to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least definable. The excesses discussed here, like the criteria of decorum against which they are perceived, cannot be it...

Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning

An illuminating survey of the impact of technical modes of production on the creation of meaning in diverse media

The Poet's Mistake
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Poet's Mistake

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Poet's Mistake -- Chapter 1. Wordsworth's Imperfect Perfect -- Chapter 2. Robert Browning's Bad Habit -- Chapter 3. Wondering about John Clare -- Chapter 4. Emily Dickinson's Eloquent Lies -- Chapter 5. Hart Crane's Wrapture -- Chapter 6. Fact-Checking Elizabeth Bishop -- Chapter 7. Misremembering Seamus Heaney -- Conclusion. Mistaking on Purpose -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

The Collegian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

The Collegian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1839
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Buckingham
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Buckingham

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book ranges in coverage from the Romano-British settlement; through the times when it stood against the Danes; its many centuries as the county town and seat of the various courts of law; to its more recent periods as a 'Rotten Borough' in the hands of the Grenville family, and as a 19th- and 20th-century market town. Every facet of the town's past is covered up to 1974 when local government changes deprived it of its title of 'Borough'. The fervent loyalty of Buckingham to the crown during the Civil War earned its title 'the Loyal and Ancient Borough'.