My Emily Dickinson

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North Atlantic Books, 1985 - Literary Criticism - 144 pages
"My Emily Dickinson" does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry. This is more personal than a biography in that it is a writer's concern with Dickinson's place in history and what she was trying to do with her poetry. Howe does a wonderful job of trying to get into the poems through playing with language. It's a place to meet Dickinson as a lover of games and words.

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Section 1
5
Section 2
6
Section 3
7
Section 4
9
Section 5
59
Section 6
75
Section 7
121
Section 8
129
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