Emily Dickinson: Personae and Performance

by Elizabeth Phillips

Book Overview

Giving us a new sense of Dickinson's ways of being in her world, this book traces the perceptions of that world in the poetry and contributes to our pleasure in the performance of a virtuoso. Elizabeth Philips shows the imaginative uses the poet made of her own life but also the verifiable use of her responses to others--personal friends and relatives, historical and literary figures, and "nature's people"--in the play of language that registered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271024844
• ISBN13: 9780271024844
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"