Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar

by Chistanne Miller and Cristanne Miller

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In this inventive work on Emily Dickinson's poetry, Cristanne Miller traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style, finding them in sources as different as the New Testament and the daily patterns of women's speech. Dickinson writes as she does both because she is steeped in the great patriarchal texts of her culture, from the Bible and hymns to Herbert's poetry and Emerson's prose, and because she...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674250362

ISBN13:9780674250369

Release Date:October 1989

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:212 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Education & Reference History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Poetry

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