My Emily Dickinson"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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Contents
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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