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Dickinson - Selected Poems and Commentaries (Paperback)
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Dickinson - Selected Poems and Commentaries (Paperback)
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Loot Price R584
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Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler,
Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of
the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her
illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily
Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, she
serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and
imaginative features of the poems. In selecting these poems for
commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's
work as a poet, "from her first-person poems to the poems of grand
abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled
depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her
painful poems of aftermath." Included here are many expected
favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized
poems. Taken together, Vendler's selection reveals Emily
Dickinson's development as a poet, her astonishing range, and her
revelation of what Wordsworth called "the history and science of
feeling." In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper
acquaintance with Dickinson the writer, "the inventive conceiver
and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes." All of Dickinson's
preoccupations-death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature
of thought-are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes
care to emphasize the poet's startling imagination and the
ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less
familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals
Dickinson as "a master" of a revolutionary verse-language of
immediacy and power. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson
and readers of lyric poetry.
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