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“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... rebel against American Puritanism, accused of believing in free love), Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson and the suffragette leader, Carrie Chapman Catt. Feminist supporter of minority rights, Eleanor Roosevelt is our contemporary. That is what worries Alan Brinkley. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Eleanor Roosevelt is the representative of social ...”

“... important to insist that she was an American artist in the undomesticated tradition that includes Emily Dickinson and Frank Lloyd Wright, someone who made things in the risky artistic spirit that seeks personal sources and methods, programmatically refusing to begin by using what lies to hand. Her stage uses of the body, for example, eliminated the whole ...”

“... a few months later, she promised the imminent completion of a poem about Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson in which they are figured as ‘self-caged birds’. This was never finished, but it’s easy to imagine that Bishop felt the phrase might apply also to herself; her sense of her entrapment in a particular set of circumstances contrasts as ...”

“... terror, perhaps, has lately adorned itself with dreamy and snippy mannerisms’. Another puts Emily Dickinson words to showtunes when she finds herself under stress. The unacceptable appallingness of femininity, trapped in a body doomed to curdle and go haywire; the peculiarly American aesthetic of smoothing it over, waxing its eyebrows, doing it as ...”