Emily Dickinson - A Poet’s Grammar

List 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

About the author

Cristanne Miller is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Her many books include Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar, Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century, and Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them.

Product details

• Authors: Chistanne Miller, Cristanne Miller
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1989
• EAN: 9780674250369
• ISBN: 978-0-674-25036-9
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 157 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Series: Poet's Grammar
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies