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Emily Dickinson / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Broommall, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, ©1999.

80 pages ; 24 cm

Critical essays analyze the themes, style, and emotions of Dickinson's poetry, assess her place in American literature, and are accompanied by a brief chronology of her life.

Bloom's major poets

Bloom's major poets.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Examinations -- Study guides.

Women and literature -- United States -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.

Examinations.

Outlines and syllabi.

Study guides.

Bloom, Harold.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-78) and index.

Thematic analysis of "There's a certain Slant of light" (#258) -- Critical views: Conrad Aiken on Emily Dickinson -- Austin Warren on Emily Dickinson -- Albert Gelpi on seeing "New Englandly"" from Edwards to Emerson to Dickinson -- Joanne Feit Diehl on Emerson, Dickinson, and the abyss -- Charles R. Anderson on despair -- Cristanne Miller on Emerson's theories of language -- Suzanne Juhasz on the landscape of the spirit -- Cristanne Miller on the consent of language and the woman poet -- Thematic analysis of "Because I could not stop for Death" (#712) -- Critical views: Allen Tate on Emily Dickinson -- Yvor Winters on Emily Dickinson and the limits of judgment -- George F. Whicher on American humor -- David Porter on the early achievement -- David Porter on strangely abstracted images -- Shira Wolosky on a syntax of contention -- Joan Burbick on Emily Dickinson and the economics of desire -- Cynthia Griffin Wolff on impertinent construction of body and self: Dickinson's use of the Romantic Grotesque -- Thematic analysis of "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" (#1129) -- Critical views: Henry W. Wells on romantic sensibility -- R.P. Blackmur on Emily Dickinson's notation -- Charles R. Anderson on words -- Richard Wilbur on "sumptuous destitution" -- Louise Bogan on a mystical poet -- Anthony Hecht on the riddles of Emily Dickinson -- Cristanne Miller on letters to the world -- Jerome McGann on Emily Dickinson's visible language.

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