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Book SynopsisClark Griffith seeks to demonstrate that, if we come to terms with her true intellectual position, we find that Emily Dickinson is a tragic poet. He studies her special connection with the Age of Emerson, her dependence upon irony, her change in attitude from detachment to tragic involvement. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Lib
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. The Post-Romantic Child, pg. 17*II. The Uses of Irony, pg. 41*III. The Poet of Dread, pg. 73*IV. The Aesthetics of Dying, pg. 111*V. Emily and Him: The Love Poetry, pg. 149*VI. Some Versions of the Self, pg. 185*VII. Emily Dickinson and the Modern Sensibility, pg. 223*Epilogue: The Clock, The Father, and the Child, pg. 273*Index of Poems, pg. 303*General Index, pg. 306
