Emily Dickinson: Celebration F (Paperback, New)

The focus of attention for these proceedings begins with Dickinson's poems themselves and the ways we read them. There are three readings for each of the six poems under consideration that are both complementary and provocative. The selected poems show Dickinson speaking of herself in increasingly wider relationships - to love, the outside world, death and eternity - and are grouped together to reveal her overlapping attitudes and feelings. The discussions which follow the readings place Dickinson's personality, presence, and existence in the world. Topics discussed range from general epistemological and critical considerations to the poet's self identification and the process of reading her poetry as a feminist critic.;The essays in this volume also appear as Volume 16, Numbers 1 through 2 of the journal "Women's studies".