My Emily Dickinson

Name: My Emily Dickinson
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation

New Directions Publishing Corporation

My Emily DickinsonAuthor(s): Susan Howe, Eliot Weinberger\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9780811216838, 978-0811216838\nSynopsis\nFor Wallace Stevens, \""Poetry is the scholar's art.\"" Susan Howetaking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, [url] and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guidesembodies 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 stooda Loaded Gun,\"" Howe tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Bront, 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 lands""