Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Barbieri, Richard. "American Lives." Independent School 62 (2002): 97-99.

The article, "American Lives," presents well-known books related to education in the United States. One of these books is, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. This novel is a biography of Emily Dickinson from a young age and discusses her struggles growing up with her family. It talks about how she had a strict male-run family and how her decision to branch out with poetry and letters was a conscious one. This novel also explains how her life was different from how it had been recently depicted in previous literature and critic reviews. For example it proves how the judgments stated 20 years ago by critic Alan Tate, "All pity for Miss Dickinson's starved life," are misguided. The article suggests that "her life was one of the richest and deepest ever lived on this continent."

"Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief criticism" Publishers Weekly 245.19 (1998) p64

Friedlander, Benjamin. "Intention in Extremity: Reading Dickinson after the Holocaust." Poetics Today 26 (2005): 175-207.

Hamilton, Craig. "A Cognitive rhetoric of poetry and Emily Dickinson." Language and Literature 14 (2005): 279-294.

The article, "A Cognitive rhetoric of poetry and Emily Dickinson," examines three poems by Emily Dickinson. The three poems discussed are F372, 'After great pain, a formal feeling comes', F598, 'The Brain -- is wider than the Sky', and Fl381, 'The Heart is the Capital of the Mind,' from the Franklin edition of her poetry. The figurative language is mainly studied in this article. The article then tries to explain how figures function persuasively in cognitive terms. It is trying to move rhetorical criticism beyond simply identifying figures and towards an exercise in explaining the figures' persuasive function. This is not just an article about the prominence the figures have not only in Dickinson's poetry but in all poetry. It says that her poems are meant to reveal poetry's profoundly rhetorical nature.

Hirschhorn, Norbert and Polly Longsworth. "Medicine Posthumous: A New look at Emily Dickinson medical conditions." New England Quarterly 69 (1996): 299-317.

The Article, "Medicine Posthumous: A New Look at Emily Dickinson medical conditions," goes over Emily Dickinson's health condition during the mid-1860s. It goes over her significant illnesses in these times and discusses what caused Emily Dickinson's reclusion. Furthermore, the article