ABSTRACT
The focus of this title, first published in 1989, begins with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways in which we read them. There are three readings for each of the six poems under consideration that are both complementary and provocative. The selected poems show Dickinson speaking of herself in increasingly wider relationships – to love, the outside world, death and eternity – and are grouped together to reveal her overlapping attitudes and feelings. Other topics discussed range from general epistemological and critical considerations to the poet’s self-identification and the process of reading her poetry as a feminist critic. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |32 pages
Poem 271
part |32 pages
Poem 315
part |29 pages
Poem 656
part |34 pages
Poem 754
part |26 pages
Poem 1581
part |32 pages
Poem 1651
part |22 pages
Plenary Panel Reading the Poems: Three Accounts
part |22 pages
Plenary Panel: Two Views of the Poet