Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar

by Chistanne Miller and Cristanne Miller

Book Overview

In this inventive work on Emily Dickinson's poetry, Cristanne Miller traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style, finding them in sources as different as the New Testament and the daily patterns of women's speech. Dickinson writes as she does both because she is steeped in the great patriarchal texts of her culture, from the Bible and hymns to Herbert's poetry and Emerson's prose, and because she...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674250362
• ISBN13: 9780674250369
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"