Seductions of Emily Dickinson
What makes Emily Dickinson such a fascinating poet? Although she left no personal poetics, she did define her own response to poetry as an immediate sensual reaction: If I read a book (and) it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry (L. 342a). Presumably, her own poetry is most significant not in what it communicates to a reader but in what it does to a reader. Is the continued popular success of that poetry not conclusive evidence of its capacity to elicit a similarly spontaneous, visceral response from its readers? And is…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8173-0905-3
- EAN: 9780817309053
- Produktnummer: 1544343
- Verlag: Univ Of Alabama Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.7 cm 308 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 308
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