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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ED '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.
Daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson by William C North, taken sometime between December 1846 and March 1847. She sits with her right elbow on a table beside her, which also a has a book on it. She wears her hair pulled back tight, and a dark gown with touches of white lace, and a ribbon round her neck. Amherst College.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Margiad Evans
At the end of the 1940s, when she was writing extremely hard, she began work on a book about Emily Brontë . She abandoned it soon after her first epileptic seizure, feeling that it was...
Intertextuality and Influence Edna O'Brien
EOB has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen , Emily Dickinson , Elizabeth Bowen , Anna Akhmatova , Anita Brookner , and Margaret Atwood , adding: Every...
Intertextuality and Influence Elaine Feinstein
Lais considers Holbein 's painting of the courtesan of that name, who lived in ancient Corinth: a representation unexpectedly mild and benevolent, of a woman who cannot hide the evidence of grace.
Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry. Faber and Faber.
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Many...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Oyeyemi
HO identifies more as a reader than as a writer: she cites, alludes to, and rewrites a large number and variety of authors: Emily Dickinson , Nella Larsen , Louisa May Alcott , and Simi Bedford
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Helen Oyeyemi
The novel is written from the perspective of an eight-year-old girl, Jessamy (Jess) Harrison (also called Wuraola in Nigeria), the only child of a Nigerian mother and a British father. The book chronicles Jess's loneliness...
Leisure and Society Rumer Godden
Her literary standards of judgement were high. Among women poets she accorded major status only to Sappho , Christina Rossetti , Emily Dickinson —not Elizabeth Barrett Browning —and to the more recent Edith Sitwell and Marianne Moore .
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
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Literary responses Sylvia Plath
In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....
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...
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...
Literary responses Laura Riding
She considered this book one of the two prime achievements of her writing life.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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It was the last volume that she published containing all new material. It was listed by the National Book League
Literary responses Jennifer Johnston
This quotation was used to head an enthusiastic notice by US critic Julia Epstein in the Washington Post Book World. Johnston, wrote Epstein, coils her language so tightly that she achieves the compression we...
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
Reviewers were respectful, even enthusiastic. PS was likened to poets as various as Eavan Boland and Emily Dickinson , and praised for energy, for vigorous and various abundance,and for attention to the erogenous zones...
Literary responses George Eliot
Though the reviews were universally laudatory in their general tone, GE found them disheartening. Edith J. Simcox , reviewing the book as H. Lawrenny for the Academy in the month following publication, asserted Middlemarch marks...

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