Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi 1 Reading in Dickinson’s Time 1 2 Lyric Strains 19 3 Hymn, the “Ballad Wild,” and Free Verse 49 4 Spoken Poetry and the Written Poem 82 5 Becoming a Poet in “turbaned seas” 118 6 Reading and Writing the Civil War 147 Coda: Portrait of a Non-Publishing Poet 176 Appendix A: Poems on the Orient 197 Appendix B: Poems Mentioning Travel, Escape, or Foreign Places or People (1860) 201 Notes 203 Works Cited 259 General Index 273 Index of Poems 277 “This page intentionally left blank” ...