Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Emily Dickinson
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Standard Name: Dickinson, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
is primarily known for her poems; she was also a letter writer. She published very little during her lifetime and the full scope of her output—some 1,775 poems—was discovered only after her death.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf.
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's verse thoroughly engages with the issue of identity, how best to be.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf.
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She is held to be among the best and most original of nineteenth-century US poets.
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's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson
Intertextuality and Influence
Anita Desai
Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people.
Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors.
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It is structured as a four...
Literary responses
Rebecca Harding Davis
When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press.
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American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Emily Dickinson
wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy.
Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago.
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Davis's publisher...
Textual Production
Sarah Daniels
When Sally Avens
conceived of a series of four radio plays, Women on Love, based on love-poems by women, SD
contributed a piece on Carol Ann Duffy
's Warming Her Pearls (in which a...
Literary responses
Wendy Cope
Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Carson
Then after some appendices (further traces of the world of scholarship) and a poem by Emily Dickinson
, Carson begins her radical modern adaptation and expansion of Geryon's story. He is now a little boy...
Textual Production
Anne Carson
AC
's poetry collection Men in the Off Hours, 2000, variously inhabits the minds (and bodies) of Tolstoy
, Lazarus, Freud
, Catullus
, Sappho
and Emily Dickinson
, not to mention the French...
Textual Production
A. S. Byatt
She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge
scholar, Kathleen Coburn
, and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
American poet Emily Dickinson
loved EBB
's poetry. The language of Aurora Leigh crops up throughout her oeuvre, and she recalls the transformative experience, sanctifying the soul, of her early reading in one poem: I...
Textual Production
Emily Brontë
The linkage of most of EB
's poetry with the (unattainable) narratives of the juvenilia, and the difficulty of ordering its manuscript materials, means that it poses a complex problem of editing and interpretation, lesser...
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Brontë
Despite the slightness of her oeuvre and Wuthering Heights's initial lack of popularity, EB
emerged early as a major influence on other writers. Matthew Arnold
paid early tribute by comparing her to Byron
in...
Family and Intimate relationships
Joan Aiken
JA
's father was Conrad Aiken
(1889-1973), born in Savannah, Georgia: a modernist poet, critic, and editor of Emily Dickinson
. He had been publishing poetry for ten years when Joan was born, and...
