Series
Physical Description: |
48 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. |
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Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 48) and index. |
ISBN: |
0806906359 : |
Author Notes: |
Except for a year spent at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Dickinson spent her entire life in the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts. She never married and began to withdraw from society, eventually becoming a recluse. Dickinson's poetry engages the reader and requires his or her participation. Full of highly charged metaphors, her free verse and choice of words are best understood when read aloud. Dickinson's punctuation and capitalization, not orthodox by Victorian standards and called "spasmodic" by her critics, give greater emphasis to her meanings. (Bowker Author Biography) |