LIT090 CM - Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson wrote more than 1,500 short poems, but not a single long poem, nor an essay. Her poems were unknown by nearly all her contemporaries. The poems have had immense impact, however, on later poets, and she has reached a very broad readership. She and Walt Whitman-altogether different from one another-are the most canonical of American poets. Her poems have come to stand for privacy, intensity, compression, and intellectuality. She wrote in a meter familiar to all those who have sung hymns in Christian churches. Her syntax and diction, though, are often peculiar, like that of no other English-language poet.

Offered: Occasionally

Credit: 1

Course Number: LIT 090 CM