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Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar

by Chistanne Miller

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About the Author

Cristanne Miller is Chair in the Department of English and Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature at University at Buffalo SUNY.
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Table of Contents

Letters to the World

A Grammar

Texts of the Poems

Compression

Disjunction

Repetition

Syntax

Speech

Reading the Poems

"He fumbles at your Soul"

"This was a Poet--It Is That"

"My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun"

"To pile like Thunder to it's close"

Names and Verbs: Influences on the Poets Language

The Language of the Bible

Seventeenth-Century Stylists

The Hymns of Isaac Watts

The American Plain Style

Emerson's Theories of Language

Noah Webster and Lexicography

Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

The Consent of Language and the Woman Poet

Notes

Index of First Lines

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780674250369
Subtitle:
A Poet's Grammar
Author:
Miller, Chistanne
Author:
Miller, Cristanne
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Criticism
Subject:
Dickinson, emily, 1830-1886
Subject:
General Literary Criticism & Collections
Subject:
General Poetry
Subject:
Literary Criticism : General
Copyright:
1987
Publication Date:
October 1989
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in .66 lb
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