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“Emily Dickinson’s rise to fame exemplifies the revolution in literary values that has occurred during the past century. In this book Klaus Lubbers examines the changing course of Dickinson criticism in America and England from the beginnings up to recent years. His study throws much light on shifting critical standards, and through its discussion of widely varying evaluations it provides a heightened understanding of her art. Lubbers shows that even during the 1890’s, when the first volumes were posthumously published, there were perceptive spirits who valued Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Among these were Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and William Dean Howells. Yet American critics generally were baffled and grudging. In Great Britain the Scottish arbiter Andrew Lang was flatly hostile. As for the reading public, Higginson and Mrs. Todd felt it necessary, in editing the poems for publication, to make scores of textual changes in order to render them more acceptable to a generation accustomed to Whittier and Longfellow. It was during the creative and critical renaissance of the second decade of the twentieth century, Lubbers finds, that Emily Dickinson began to be disco

Author

Klaus Lubbers

Publisher

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press

Published

1968

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24