Heaven Beguiles the Tired: Death in the Poetry of Emily DickinsonUniversity of Alabama Press, 1966 - 208 pages |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Biographical Influences | 35 |
General Characteristics of Emily | 62 |
Copyright | |
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abstract accept Amherst College Anderson anguish anxiety appears approximate rhyme aspects of death associated attitude toward death belief Charlotte Brontë cold concern with death concrete conveys creative dead death and immortality death poems Dickin doubt dying early Edward Dickinson elegies Elizabethan Emerson Emily Dick Emily Dickinson's poetry Emily's eternity exact rhyme existentialist experience expresses father feeling final frost God's grave heaven hope hymn books Ibid idea indicate influence inson's intense interest in death J. G. Holland Johnson letter lines living Millicent Todd Bingham mother Mount Holyoke nature never observed fact perhaps person personifies death physical aspects poem beginning poem written Poems of Emily poet poetic present Puritan Ralph Barton Perry religion religious Richard Chase riddle second stanza sense soul stanza suspended rhyme T. W. Higginson tension Theodore Spencer things Thomas H thought tion Transcendentalism tribute trochaic universe verb verse William Dean Howells words write