Long Shadow
eBook - PDF

Long Shadow

Emily Dickinson's Tragic Poetry

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Long Shadow

Emily Dickinson's Tragic Poetry

About this book

Clark Griffith seeks to demonstrate that, if we come to terms with her true intellectual position, we find that Emily Dickinson is a tragic poet. He studies her special connection with the Age of Emerson, her dependence upon irony, her change in attitude from detachment to tragic involvement.

Originally published in 1964.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. I. The Post-Romantic Child
  6. II. The Uses of Irony
  7. III. The Poet of Dread
  8. IV. The Aesthetics of Dying
  9. V. Emily and Him: The Love Poetry
  10. Vl. Some Versions of the Self
  11. VII. Emily Dickinson and the Modern Sensibility
  12. Epilogue: The Clock, the Father, and the Child
  13. Index of Poems
  14. General Index