Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222) and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Sumptuous destitution / Richard Wilbur -- Presence and place in Emily Dickinson's poetry / Douglas Anderson -- The development of Dickinson's style / Timothy Morris -- Dickinson's discontinuous lyric self / Margaret Dickie -- Revising the script : Emily Dickinson's manuscripts / Domhnall Mitchell -- Emily Dickinson as an editorial problem / G. Thomas Tanselle -- Emily Dickinson and popular culture / David S. Reynolds -- Musical qualities of Dickinson's poetry : nineteenth-century views / Carolyn Lindley Cooley -- Dickinson's epistolary "naturalness" / Logan Esdale -- Public and private in Dickinson's war poetry / Shira Wolosky -- Emily Dickinson's unutterable word / Deirdre Fagan -- Meeting her maker Emily Dickinson's god / Jay Ladin -- "Earth's most graphic transaction" : the syllables of Emily Dickinson / John Felstiner -- Chronology.
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Offers perceptive interpretations of Dickinson and her creative output. Freshly updated, this edition invites students to further explore this fiercely original poet and her widely studied and much-debated work.
Emily Dickinson.
Dickinson, Emily,1830-1886-- Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily,1830-1886.
Dickinson, Emily.
Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.