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Bezig met laden... Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (origineel 2010; editie 2010)door Helen Vendler (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkDickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries door Helen Vendler (2010)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is absolutely must reading for any Dickinson scholar, for any student of American literature, for any reader turning to Dickinson for the first time, and for any longtime lover of Dickinson returning to her. A collection of close readings (perhaps the French term "explication de texte" better conveys their quality), it conveniently combines 150 selected poems each followed by a short, readable, and enlightening explication of both the poem's style and its content. Although of course not a substitute for either the Johnson or Franklin editions, Vendler's text does include convenient cross-references to both Johnson and Franklin for each of the 150 poems included. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In selecting these poems for commentary, the author 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, this 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 the author 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 the author 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, the author reveals Dickinson as a master of a revolutionary verse language of immediacy and power. Here, the author turns her skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. She serves as a guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative feature of the poems. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Helen Vendler proves again to be a great companion for the reader, unpacking and guiding. The best way to read this selection is to read each poem, Vendler's commentary, and then reread that poem once or twice more. Windows open. I cannot say I always agree with Vendler's interpretations, but they are always illuminating. ( )