Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson's Tragic Poetry

by Clark Griffith

Book Overview

Clark Griffith seeks to demonstrate that, if we come to terms with her true intellectual position, we find that Emily Dickinson is a tragic poet. He studies her special connection with the Age of Emerson, her dependence upon irony, her change in attitude from detachment to tragic involvement. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691060703
• ISBN13: 9780691060705
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.