DICKINSON, EMILY

The poetry of Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore contain many similarities. This thesis explores those similarities through a variety of critical methods, namely feminist criticism and textual criticism, as I focus on the gendered authority of poetry and the poems in their manus…

Since the death of the American poet Emily Dickinson in 1886, numerous critics and biographers have speculated about the reasons for the poet’s long and mysterious withdrawal, citing romantic disappointment, chronic illness, wartime distress, and desire for social distinction as…

In an age of both religious revival and upheaval, Emily Dickinson was not concerned in showing how Christian or un-Christian she was in her poetry, but her affections focused on the rationalization and deconstruction of religious beliefs in the nineteenth century. Previous studi…

This dissertation is written along the lines of studies that try to read Emily Dickinson's poems not only as isolated lyrics, as her critics habitually do, but also as parts of a larger constellation of lyrics evidencing complex intertextual relations, namely within the context …