Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and DickinsonBloomsbury Academic, 2002 M04 30 - 184 pages Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson form an engaging triad of poets who, considered together, enrich the poetics of each other; the works of the three poets address language, birth, and scientific aspects of culture in ways that frame new perceptions of sex roles. Exacerbating 19th-century American expectations for sexually-constructed experience, they employ tactics that disrupt patriarchal signification. The first book to group these three poets together, this volume examines the daring language experiments in which they engage. It explores their use of pseduoscientific and scientific studies of alchemy, hydropathy, and botany to inform their understanding of language and birth and to discover expressions that challenge expectations for 19th-century poetry. |
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... " goes even further : " We don't know if Dickinson ever read Whitman's ' Book , ' though she is likely to have read “ As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life ' when it ap- peared in April 1860 in the Atlantic Monthly , to Notes.
... notes that Poe may have met Whitman ( 486n ) . 6. Johnson notes of a Dickinson thank - you letter to Henry V. Emmons , an in- terpretation of Dickinson's use of the words " pearl , onyx , and emerald . " The first let- ter of each word ...
... notes that " Dickinson rarely described direct encounters with God " and that this poem “ is unusual in that sense " ( 75 ) . My reading , in contradistinction to the two above , but along with Eberwein , concentrates more on the ...
Contents
Poes The Raven and Gestative Signification | 11 |
Whitmans Song of Myself and Gestative Signification | 31 |
Dickinsons Fascicle TwentyEight and Gestative Signification | 45 |
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