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Circumference and Circumstance:
Stages in the Mind and Art of Emily Dickinson
WILLIAM
R.
SHERWOOD
The first full-scale, closely reasoned attempt to describe the development
of Emily Dickinson's thought and the sensibility in which her ideas were
held, to determine the principal influences upon her work, and to investigate
the relationship between the shifts of thought and theme in her poetry and
the events in her life. This study brings coherence to Emily Dickinson's work,
and will allow the reader to approach her poetry from a new perspective and
with an added sense of what the poems convey.
$7.50
Theodore Roethke: An Introduction to the Poetry
K.
MALKOFF
"In tills careful and detailed explication of the whole body of Roethke's
poetry, taken chronologically, the emphasis is more on content than on tech–
nique. Attention is given to the many influences on Roethke's development,
in particular to Yeats, Joyce, Jung, Tillich, and Jacob Boehme. The critical
approach is methodical, disciplined, and respectful; Mr. Malkoff observes
his own dictum that 'explication must illuminate the poem without limiting
its meaning.'
"-Library Journal
$6.75
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte
Edited
by
C. W. HATFIELD
The first complete and accurate collection at its publication, C. W.
Hatfield's remains the definitive edition of the poems of Emily Jane Bronte
to date. In it, the editor has not only gathered together all of the poems
which have been discovered and removed several poems that were wrongly
attributed to her in an earlier edition by Clement Shorter, but arranged
them all in chronological order. To further clarify their meaning, Miss
Fannie E. Ratchford, author of
The Brontes' Web of Childhood,
has con–
tributed a preface on "The Gondal Story." A book which will be well used
by poets, students, and admirers alike.
$7.50
Literary Criticism and Historical Understanding
Selected Papers from the English Institute
Edited
by
PHILLIP DAMON
All of these essays deal with the increasingly emphasized problems of
applying historical understanding to the task of literary criticism. While
some are concerned with the role of the exegete, others describe the range
within which historical reconstruction serves not simply to provide useful
information but to complete one's own immediate experience of a text. $5.50
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