A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson

by Thomas Gardner

Book Overview

Thomas Gardner argues in this original study that we are just beginning, as a culture, to understand the far-reaching implications of Emily Dickinson's work. Looking at the way quite different writers have enacted and fleshed-out crucial aspects of her poetry, Gardner gives us a Dickinson for our times. Beginning with the work of Lucie Brock-Broido, Alice Fulton, Kathleen Fraser, and Robert Hass, Gardner moves on to analytical chapters and fully developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195174933
• ISBN13: 9780195174939
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"