Emily Dickinson

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Standard Name: Dickinson, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is primarily known for her poems; she was also a letter writer. She published very little during her lifetime and the full scope of her output—some 1,775 poems—was discovered only after her death.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf, 1986.
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ED 's verse thoroughly engages with the issue of identity, how best to be.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf, 1986.
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She is held to be among the best and most original of nineteenth-century US poets.
Daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson by William C North, taken sometime between December 1846 and March 1847. She sits with her right elbow on a table beside her, which also a has a book on it. She wears her hair pulled back tight, and a dark gown with touches of white lace, and a ribbon round her neck. Amherst College.

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Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF says her fiction and poetry come from different parts of herself: the voice, the cadences, the rhythms are very different. She sees fiction as involving impersonation of other people.
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Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press, 2001.
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For the craft of...
Textual Production Adrienne Rich
In this book AR continues to reconstruct a feminist literary tradition through such essays as Vesuvius at Home: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, The Tensions of Anne Bradstreet, Woman Observing, Preserving, Conspiring, Surviving...
Textual Production A. S. Byatt
She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge scholar, Kathleen Coburn , and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...
Textual Production Anne Carson
AC 's poetry collection Men in the Off Hours, 2000, variously inhabits the minds (and bodies) of Tolstoy , Lazarus, Freud , Catullus , Sappho and Emily Dickinson , not to mention the French...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET published Wild Nights, a fictional childhood memoir, titled from the opening words of a poem by Emily Dickinson .
“Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Sarah Daniels
When Sally Avens conceived of a series of four radio plays, Women on Love, based on love-poems by women, SD contributed a piece on Carol Ann Duffy 's Warming Her Pearls (in which a...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...
Textual Production Rumer Godden
Bodley Head issued RG 's A Letter to the World: poems for young readers: a selection from the work of Emily Dickinson (a poet she had discovered with, she said, instant recognition).
The...
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
CAD has edited two poetry anthologies aimed at teenagers: I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine (1992, with illustrations by Trisha Rafferty ), and Stopping for Death (a title which alludes to Emily Dickinson )...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW 's total reviews eventually numbered over one hundred and fifty. In her first year she considered children's books (including a title by Beatrix Potter ), books on design, and second-rate novels. Her efforts were...
Travel Rumer Godden
RG visited the USA so frequently that she felt it was her territory, even before undertaking a coast-to-coast lecture tour.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989.
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On another occasion, making a pilgrimage to Emily Dickinson 's house at Amherst, Massachusetts...

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