Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

by Helen Vendler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048679
• ISBN13: 9780674048676
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 535 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"