Can I read My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook) on EtoBox?

My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook) by Susan Howe; Eliot Weinberger is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook) about?

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies 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 stood—a Loaded Gun," Home tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, 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 landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she...

Author

Susan Howe; Eliot Weinberger

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811223348