“... knew, or thought I knew, altogether more sensitive and less coy than, say, a comparable one-woman Emily Dickinson ‘show’ which was at one time going the rounds. The only thing shared by Stevie Smith and Glenda Jackson was femaleness, but the actress had the effect of producing a true portrait. The danger in Stevie lies in its emphasis on the ...”

“... themselves: in a sense, they became themselves. A process especially important for women writers. Emily Brontë was in her own way a self-dramatiser, Charlotte a self-esteemer. Her example was easier to follow, much more influential. When Aurora Leigh was published in 1857, reviewers pointed out a striking resemblance to much in the plot of Jane Eyre. Romney ...”

“... activities used to concentrate an audience by figuring in a non-literary context, and Blake or Emily Dickinson used religion, as they used the context of childhood responses, to appeal directly to an audience over the head, as it were, of literature. Their communication seems to short-circuit it. The tactic was understood and developed by the ...”

“... poetry of a sort? (Elsewhere, a series of plastic and aluminium sculptures reproduces lines from Emily Dickinson.) They seem at times like ways of pinning or fixing the unruly energy of form, line and colour – superadding a conceptual scrim. Language too is a matter of flux and mutability, slow accretion and sudden dispersal, as Horn demonstrates in ...”

“... via such places as Ithaca, Ovid, Geneva, Skaneateles, Schenectady. Then, deviously, another in Emily Dickinson country and a bus ride to Boston,’ where he fell ill, as one often does on these junkets, but not so ill as to be unable to fly back to Chicago ‘stuffed with analgesics from Denise Levertov’s ample medicine cupboard. They didn’t help ...”

“... French art he inherited. Think of Corot or Monet or Bonnard.) There are some phrases in a poem by Emily Dickinson that strike me as helpful, particularly with Paris-Montparnasse in mind:Anguish – and the Tomb –Hum by – in Muffled Coaches –Lest they – wonder Why –Any – for the Press of Smiling –Interrupt – to die –This could almost be ...”

“... plain view and I found them out. The Golden Age of American Literature. When cowboys used to read Emily Dickinson in the saddle, and the cops walking the beat carried a volume of Wallace Stevens in the pocket of their overcoats. The occupiers everywhere, I note, are outraged by the bad manners of the occupied that do nothing but complain about being ...”

“... rose o’er the fray And you would tremble had you heard The things I heard you say.’ *** I saw Emily Dickinson in a vision, and asked if it was merely by coincidence that so much of her poetry could be sung to the tune of ‘The Yellow Rose of Texas’. She said: ‘In poetry there is no coincidence. I had feet once. I had knees. I would not have you ...”

“... and formal decision theory. He quotes in an unforced and relevant way from Donne, Stendhal, Emily Dickinson and Groucho Marx, to name a few; about the last he remarks that his famous dictum, ‘I would not dream of belonging to a club which would have me as a member,’ is a reversal of the Master-Slave paradox, and that it was indeed he who stood ...”

“... the line of American poets who value fierce lyric compression. This tradition was established by Emily Dickinson and her followers: H.D., Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Bishop. It is a tradition predominantly, though not exclusively, of women poets; the opposing tradition of ornate or discursive amplitude has been predominantly male ...”

“... achievement to bring, as she did, a speaking voice and manner into poetry. There is, too, Emily Brontë, who has hardly yet had full justice as a poet; I will record, without offering it as a checked and deliberated critical judgment, the remembered impression that her ‘Cold in the Earth’ is the finest poem in the 19th-century part of The Oxford ...”

“... perverse and self-centred? Why are the life choices of even as canonical a woman writer as Emily Dickinson so often pathologised while Flaubert’s identical strategies of withdrawal are taken as evidence of his devotion to his art? Kaufmann seems quite blind to the gender dynamics of some of what he analyses, but there might be something to be ...”

“... taste accordingly celebrates ecstatic primitives like Clare, obstinate linguistic feminists like Emily Dickinson, First World writers like Elizabeth Bishop with Third World imaginations, Eastern European activists and ‘wakers-up’ like Holub and Herbert, deconstructive poets of soccer-violence Britain like Peter Reading. Opposed to them are a number ...”

“... picked up at Heathrow Airport on 8 June 1968 (beginning with the Liberty Chief), or a line from Emily Dickinson or Jorge Guillén or García Lorca, or the moody flotsam that he watches bobbing up on the tideline of the estuarial Tagus (‘sand,/Atlantic Ocean, condoms, sand’ – all right, that’s Lowell), it barely matters. The absence of ...”

“... produces (as Germaine Greer implies) a new version of the crucified Andromeda, of Mrs Browning, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, struggling ‘to obey the peremptory demands of their own creativity within the limits imposed by our culture’. This in the true and involuntary perspective behind poems that are often irritatingly with-it, sidestepping ...”