My Emily Dickinson"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading. Giving close attention to the well-known poem, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun," Howe tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture of the day. "Dickinson's life was language and a lexicon her landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she pulled text from text...." |
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... a solitary Acre- Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action - Maintain- The Sun -upon a Morning meets them- The Wind- No nearer Neighbor -have they- But God- The Acre gives them-Place- / They -Him -Attention of Passer 20 Susan Howe.
... God bless all! I'll pray for all, often, on my knees. (DC, ch. 31) To recipient unknown early 1862(?) Oh, did I offend it- . . . Daisy -Daisy -offend it-who bends her smaller life to his (it's) meeker (lower) every day-who only asks-a ...
Susan Howe. Archaeology. Foreshadowings: I shall particularly speak of the severall Removes we had up and down the Wilderness. (Mary Rowlandson, The Soveraignty & Goodnes of God) Emily Dickinson was born exactly two hundred years after the.
... God's infinite and absolute sovereignty were conceived in terms of legal authority. Divine judgment and a moral law were necessary for a fallen humanity. Rage and rigor in the name of Jehovah, larded with threats and dire prophesies ...
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