Seductions of Emily Dickinson

by Robert McClure Smith

Book Overview

What makes Emily Dickinson such a fascinating poet? Although
she left no personal poetics, she did define her own response to poetry
as an immediate sensual reaction: "If I read a book [and] it makes
my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry. If
I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that
is poetry" (L. 342a). Presumably, her own poetry is most significant
not in what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817309055
• ISBN13: 9780817309053
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"