“... whom Bloom adored, but who seemed to shrink away from the forcefulness of his critical vocabulary. Emily Dickinson is the clearest instance. She was one of the relatively few women writers given a chapter in The Western Canon, and is praised here for her ‘cognitive strength’. The price of her inclusion in the canon is to be seen as another Bloomian ...”

“... Eliot and Robert Frost, went East, and not West – all the way to Europe. Others again, like Emily Dickinson, walled themselves up at home and refused to go anywhere. On these figures Kazin is at least judicious, and sometimes better than that. On Dickinson he is critically acute and very informative about her ...”

“... I think, make some appeal to Celan’s own activity as a translator – Shakespeare’s sonnets, Emily Dickinson, Mandelstam, Blok, Yesenin, Apollinaire, Valéry, Supervielle, Ungaretti – to validate their own efforts. A scholarly edition of Celan, obviously an exceptionally difficult and delicate undertaking, has been underway in Germany for some ...”

“... remote, the second compact, studious, practical and courageous, the third artistic – a sort of Emily Dickinson with a long blonde plait, sensitive to the phenomenal world to an exquisite and almost unsustainable degree. Iris Murdoch creates her characters in sets corresponding to subtly shaded patterns of moral and human qualities. In The Green Knight ...”

“... mixture of the homely and exotic. She has acquired the honorary but eccentric status of an Emily Dickinson, telling it slant. This oblique trance is my natural Way of speaking, she claims, and this is indeed how her poetic personality comes across: dreamy, meditative, in the world but not quite of it. Selima Hill has some of the same ambivalence ...”

“... the imperiousness of certain kinds of writing – Pater is a provocation. Like Swift, Yeats and Emily Dickinson – the other individual writers Donoghue has devoted books to – Pater unavoidably invites the questions that have always inspired Donoghue as a critic. Are writers people who, because they cannot bear the world, make it their own, in ...”

“... these other tones which are missing in The Ice-Pilot Speaks. Anne Stevenson compares Stainer to Emily Dickinson, but she reminds me more of Edith Sitwell, particularly the Sitwell of Façade, not in terms of rhythm (which Sitwell used quite skilfully and Stainer hardly uses at all) but in terms of emotional range and diction. Like Sitwell she has a ...”

“... book: ‘You now inhabit a corner of my immortal cupboard with LZ (especially the short poems), Emily Dickinson, Thoreau, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, John Muir, bits from Santayana, D.H. Lawrence, Dahlberg, William Carlos Williams, and haiku. These knew “when/ to listen/what falls/glistens now/in the ear.”’ After the deaths of her mother in 1951 ...”

“... summarised has been argued at some point by scholars. Most modern readers are probably closest to Emily Dickinson, who carried around a vague impression of an ‘arid book’; but Dickinson was herself surprised to find ‘how infinitely wise & how merry it is’. She moved from admiring the ‘surpassing splendour ...”

“... English, she regrets normalising him, as Kafka was normalised by his early translators (or Emily Dickinson by her editors). ‘Translating Bob, Son of Battle: The Last Grey Dog of Kenmuir’ is a more interesting case. At epic length (the essay is more than sixty pages long), she recounts her experiment with Alfred Ollivant’s 1898 children’s ...”

“... were beneath consideration. He asked me which writers I was reading. I told him Nathanael West, Emily Dickinson, Camus. He said he didn’t think much of any of them. He advocated the work of Thomas Mann, Chekhov, Proust, Trollope, Dickens, Shakespeare and certain Latin poets (Martial, Horace). Of the King James version of the Bible, he said: ‘It’s ...”

“... her work was published and widely read in America, and an influence on American poets, including Emily Dickinson. Lonsdale seems to take no interest in religious poetry, which is under-represented in this volume, and perhaps on that account the selection of Rowe’s poetry suffers, as most of the best of it is religious. Pope was a problematic figure ...”

“... woman, fit company for her companions in the new Berg Women’s Series, Mme de Stael and Emily Dickinson.* Unfortunately Susan Goodman’s book is somewhat unbalanced, sloppily written (‘her heart over brimmed with romance’), littered with irritating errors and grammatical infelicities, falling far short of the standard set for the series by ...”

“... mind can, if properly programmed. Literature is vital to that reprogramming. Powers is fond of the Emily Dickinson poem which he uses as epigraph to Galatea 2.2: The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will contain With ease and you beside. For Powers, the novel allows the brain to straddle new continents of ...”

“... as well as legal theory of post-liberalism. Born into the New England intellectual aristocracy (Emily Dickinson is a distant relative), Vermeule went to Harvard Law School and then clerked for the Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. As an academic at Chicago and then Harvard, he became a wunderkind in the field of administrative law, writing a number ...”