By Fordyce R. Bennett
The poems of Emily Dickinson owe a lot to the King James Bible for tale and scenario, syntax, symbolism and imagery, proposal, and masses extra. Bennett makes an attempt to spot all of the verbatim rates from the approved model of the King James Bible which look within the 3 quantity Johnson variation of Dickinson's poetry, in addition to biblical backgrounds, characters, parallels, principles, and echoes. appropriate poems are taken care of sequentially, starting with the 1st poem of Johnson's first quantity. go references to different poems, letters, and prose fragments are supplied, in addition to to straightforward reference works of the time. the place proper, short explanatory fabric is further. Interpretation, although unavoidable, has been constrained to short parenthetical and terminal reviews purely the place idea valuable. for simple learn, the references to textual and biographical backgrounds have heavily the first Dickinson assets. a superb buy for faculty and college libraries and for top faculties the place Dickinson's poetry is taught.
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