Out of the closet
Tom Paulin, 29 October 1987
Emily Dickinson: Looking to Canaan
by John Robinson.
Faber, 191 pp., £3.95, August 1986,0 571 13943 4 Show More
by John Robinson.
Faber, 191 pp., £3.95, August 1986,
Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar
by Christanne Miller.
Harvard, 212 pp., £15.95, July 1987,0 674 25035 4 Show More
by Christanne Miller.
Harvard, 212 pp., £15.95, July 1987,
Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story
by Jerome Loving.
Cambridge, 128 pp., £20, April 1987,0 521 32781 4 Show More
by Jerome Loving.
Cambridge, 128 pp., £20, April 1987,
“... famous women writers of her day – George Eliot, the Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yet as Christanne Miller points out, Dickinson didn’t actively support the political campaign for women’s rights ‘or, apparently, sympathise with women generally’. It is in the radical new language of the poems themselves that the battle against the father ... ”
