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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Rubrique de classement : [Textes choisis (anglais). 2012]
Titre(s) : Dickinson [Texte imprimé] : selected poems and commentaries / edited by Helen Vendler
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Belknap Press of Harvard University press, 2012
Description matérielle : xiv, 535 p. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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
these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's
work as a poet, "from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from
her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her
comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath". Included here are many expected
favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems. Taken together,
Vendler's selection reveals Emily Dickinson's development as a poet, her astonishing
range, and her revelation of what Wordsworth called "the history and science of feeling".
In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the
writer, "the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes." All
of Dickinson's preoccupations - death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature
of thought - are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize
the poet's startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether
exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson
as "a master" of a revolutionary verse - language of immediacy and power. "Dickinson:
Selected Poems and Commentaries" will be an indispensable reference work for students
of "Dickinson" and readers of lyric poetry
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Vendler, Helen (1933-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) -- Critique et interprétation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674066380 (pbk.). - ISBN 0674066383 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb427037896
Notice n° :
FRBNF42703789
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