Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre

304 Pages·1979·10.963 MB·English

by  Sharon Cameron

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LYRIC TIME

Lyric Time
DICKINSON AND THE LIMITS OF GENRE
Sharon Cameron
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS / BALTIMORE AND LONDON
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Poetry reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The
Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press, copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard
College. Additional poetry copyright 1914, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi; copyright 1929
by Martha Dickinson Bianchi; copyright © 1957 by Mary L. Hampson; copyright 1935 by
Martha Dickinson Bianchi; copyright © 1963 by Mary L. Hampson.
To Carol Baird
and to the Memory of
Louis Briskin
(1889-1976)