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John in the company of poets : the Gospel in literary imagination by Gardner, Thomas, 1952-

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Dickinson and the Romantic imagination by Diehl, Joanne Feit, 1947-

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Dickinson's Misery : a Theory of Lyric Reading. by Jackson, Virginia, 1956-

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Field study : meditations on a year at the herbarium by Humphreys, Helen, 1961-

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Beneath the American Renaissance : the Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. by Reynolds, David S.

Table of Contents: “…The American Women's Renaissance and Emily Dickinson; PART FOUR: THE GROTESQUE POSTURE: Popular Humor and the American Subversive Style; 15. …”
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American passages. / American passages :

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Dickinson's Misery : a Theory of Lyric Reading. by Jackson, Virginia, 1956-

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Platonism for the Iron Age : an essay on the literary universal by Will, Frederic

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1THE UNIVERSAL IN CHINA; 2EMILY DICKINSON AND CHINA; 3THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE UNIVERSAL; 4THE UNIVERSAL IN LITERATURE; 5AESTHETIC UNIVERSALITY; 6UNIVERSALITY AND HISTORY; 7DIVERSITY AND COMMONALITY; 8EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE, GREECE, THE UNIVERSAL; 9DIVERSITY, STANCE, HELLENISM; 10THE SELF AS AN ADVENTURER IN LANGUAGE; 11BABYTALK, LOGIC, AND L'INNOMABLE; 12THE BODY OF LITERATURE; 13HENTSCHER-DOMPAL AND DR. …”
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Tethering world : poems by Rambo, Jody

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An American cakewalk : ten syncopators of the modern world by Papanikolas, Zeese

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The makings of happiness by Wallace, Ronald

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Classic writings on poetry

Table of Contents: “…Life of Thomas Gray / Samuel Johnson -- Progress of poesy / Thomas Gray -- Observations prefixed to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth -- Biographia literaria, Chapter XIV / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- from The state of modern poetry / Francis Jeffrey -- from On poetry in general / William Hazlitt -- from The four ages of poetry / Thomas Love Peacock -- from English bards and Scotch reviewers / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Poet / William Cullen Bryant -- Poems / John Keats -- from The poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Aurora Leigh, fifth book / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Poems / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- from Preface to Leaves of grass, first ed. (1855) / Walt Whitman -- Study of poetry / Matthew Arnold -- Poems / Emily Dickinson -- Proofs of Holy writ / Rudyard Kipling -- Retrospect / Ezra Pound -- Possibility of a poetic drama / T.S. …”
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A glossary of chickens : poems by Whitehead, Gary J.

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Lug your careless body out of the careful dusk : a poem in fragments by Wilkinson, Joshua Marie, 1977-

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Intermediality, life writing, and American studies : interdisciplinary perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Lukasik -- Illustrations "more numerous than we could have expected": biography as "mixed media" in William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children (1885-1889) / Hélène Quanquin -- Performing lives in nineteenth-century US-American culture: from paratheatricals to early cinema / Margit Peterfy -- Lenny: (auto- )biography, black-and-white, and juxtapositional montage in Bob Fosse's Hollywood renaissance biopic / Dennis Bingham -- The remediation of Little Edie: from it-girl to loony cat lady to cultural icon / Ina Bergmann -- Graphic musical biography: an intermedial case of musico-comical life writing / Daniel Stein -- Ekphrastic encounters and word-photography configurations in contemporary transcultural American life writing / Gabriele Rippl -- "A figment of someone else's imagination": intermedial games in Paul Auster's Report from the Interior / Danuta Fjellestad -- Auto-assembling the self on social networking sites: intermediality and transnational kinship in online academic life writing / Silvia Schultermandl -- Intermedial on/offstage auto/biography: Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, hip hop, and historiography / Nassim Winnie Balestrini -- Emily Dickinson, intermediality, and life writing: an interview with Susan Snively / Ina Bergmann -- The respectful biographer's empathetic imagination: an interview about intermediality and life writing with Brenda Wineapple.…”
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A guide to Poetics Journal : writing in the expanded field, 1982/1998 with the copublication of Poetics Journal digital archive

Table of Contents: “…Close Reading : Leavings and Cleavings ; Writing and Method ; Forbidden Knowledge ; Language/Mind/Writing ; His Heart Is a Lute Held Up : Poe and Bataille ; The Rejection of Closure ; My Emily Dickinson : Part One ; Continuous Reframing ; Some Ways Philosophy Has Helped to Shape My Work ; Plotless Literature : Vasily Rozanov ; Migratory Meaning : The Parsimony Principle in the Poem ; The Politics of Style ; CONSTELLATION I : PRACTICES OF POETICS -- Numbers 5-7. …”
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Separate spheres no more : gender convergence in American literature, 1830-1930

Table of Contents: “…To Be a Parlor Soldier: Susan Warner's Answer to Emerson's Self-Reliance -- 2. Astra Castra: Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford; 3. …”
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Unseen cinema. / Picturing a metropolis :

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The convent mermaid by Usher, Rod

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The Edinburgh companion to nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing

Table of Contents: “…Hayes -- Melville's flummery / Wyn Kelley -- The epistolary romance and rivalry of Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne / Patricia Dunlavy Valenti -- Co-responding with Walt Whitman / Ed Folsom -- 'Rare sparkles of light' : intimacy and distance in Emily Dickinson's letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson / Linda Freedman -- 'Soul friends' : Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lady Byron in correspondence / Beth L. …”
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Can poetry save the earth? : a field guide to nature poems by Felstiner, John

Table of Contents: “…Singing ecology unto the Lord -- Anon was an environmentalist -- Blake, the Wordsworths, and the dung -- Coleridge imagining -- John Keats eking it out -- John Clare at home in Helpston -- Adamic Walt Whitman -- Syllables of Emily Dickinson -- Nature shadowing Thomas Hardy -- The world charged by Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Nature versus history in W.B. …”
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No one gardens alone : a life of Elizabeth Lawrence by Wilson, Emily Herring

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Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931 by Ryan, James Emmett

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Last things : disastrous form from Kant to Hujar by Khalip, Jacques, 1975-

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Wounded warriors : a soldier's story of healing through birds by Vallieres, Robert C.

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Is this a Culture of Trauma? An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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Soft canons : American women writers and masculine tradition

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois and Anna Julia Cooper / Hanna Wallinger -- Woman Thinking: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the American Scholar / Lindsey Traub -- How Conscious Could Conscious Grow? Emily Dickinson and William James / Susan Manning.…”
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Holoholo by Hamby, Barbara, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Ode to Driving on Venice Boulevard with Emily Dickinson -- Ontological Odes -- Ode to Marivaudage, Ratiocination, and Blahblahblah -- Ode on My Nightingale -- Ode to My Younger Self -- Ode to the DNA Cocktail (Shake That Baby, Oh Yeah) -- Ode on Anger, the Dalai Lama, and Elliot's Red Boots -- Ode on My Blindness -- Ode on Following My Mind -- Ode to My Green Gloves -- Ode to Yiddish, Gratitude, and the Feeling You Have for Someone You Once Loved but Love No More -- Ode on the Moon, Pontormo, and Losing My Mind -- Ode on the End of the World -- Ode to the Middle of the Night…”
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Candide the Tenth and Other Agitations : Prose and Poetry. by Sharpe, Mike, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Five Variations on Jack and JillVariation One: In the Style of Isaac Bashevis Singer; Variation Two: In the Style of Franz Kafka; Variation Three: In the Style of Ernest Hemingway; Variation Four: In the Style of George Bernard Shaw; Variation Five: In the Style of Jane Austen; Eternal Bliss; I Divorce Myself; Grand Old Times; On Books; A Surprise for the Dictator; The Man of Many Masks; Poetry; The Day the World Came to an End; Letters to Emily Dickinson; Testimony of a War Criminal; The Good Soldier; Iraq-Free at Last; Spread It All Around; Give It to Them; Connecting Flights.…”
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From battlefields rising : how the Civil War transformed American literature by Fuller, Randall, 1963-

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The ethics of literary communication : genuineness, directness, indirectness

Table of Contents: “…Meeting apart in Emily Dickinson's "I cannot live with You"; 4. Prufrock's imaginary walk: Recurrent and local techniques; 5. …”
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Words remembered, texts renewed : essays in honour of John F.A. Sawyer

Table of Contents: “…All they need is love : once more Genesis 6.1-4 / Marc Vervenne -- 'Traditions of remembrance': post-Holocaust interpretations of Genesis 22 / Isabel Wollaston -- What biblical scholars might learn from Emily Dickinson / Francis I. Andersen -- The names of God in biblical narratives / Jonathan Magonet -- The Ten Commandments, reading from left to right / David Clines -- The suffering of witches and children : uses of the witchcraft passages in the Bible / Graham Harvey -- What does 'deuteronomistic' mean? …”
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Women's poetry by Gill, Jo, 1965-

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Lectures on American literature

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Text structures from poetry : lessons to help students read, analyze, and create poems they will remember by Bernabei, Gretchen S., Van Prooyen, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Let Me Count the Ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning; "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns; "Regret" by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks; "Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" by Emily Dickinson; "The Flea" by John Donne; "A Musical" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar; Excerpt from "Preludes" by T.S.…”
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A cabinet of philosophical curiosities : a collection of puzzles, oddities, riddles, and dilemmas by Sorensen, Roy A.

Table of Contents: “…The Elderly ScientistMore Proof!; Emily Dickinson's Hummingbird; Plato's Packing Problem; Telepathy for the Absent-Minded; Order of Absence versus Absence of Order; Neglect of the Absent; Child Proof; Wittgenstein's Parallelograms; Knowing the Area of a Parallelogram; Freud versus the Dreaming Logicians; Do Butterflies Dream?…”
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Spells : new and selected poems by Finch, Annie, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Blessing on the Poets -- Homebirth -- Abortion Spell -- Your Land -- Stone and Cloth and Paper -- The Naming -- Frost's Grave -- Tarot : The Magician Card -- Keys -- Beach of Edges -- Earth Day -- Revelry -- Architecture -- Watching the Whale -- Paravaledellentine : A Paradelle -- Wild Yeasts -- Earth Goddess and Sky God -- Conversation -- Calendars -- Over Dark Arches -- A Carol for Carolyn -- Chain of Women -- Ghazal for a Poetess -- Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant -- Butterfly Lullaby -- Intimations of Pregnancy -- Walk with Me -- Two Bodies -- Final Autumn Elegy for My Father -- Samhain -- Winter Solstice Chant -- Imbolc Dance -- A Seed for Spring Equinox -- A Wreath for Beltane -- Summer Solstice Chant -- Lammas -- A Mabon Crown -- Letter for Emily Dickinson -- A Dance for the Inland Sea -- Iowa Barn -- Bluet -- Landing Under Water, I See Roots -- Changing Woman -- Spider Woman -- Aphrodite -- Eve -- Inanna -- Coatlique -- Nut -- Brigid -- Rhiannon -- Running in Church -- Blood Charm : From the Menstrual Hut -- Encounter -- Gulf War and Child : A Curse -- Being a Constellation -- My Raptor -- The Wish for Eyes -- The Last Mermother -- Tribute -- The Intellect of Woman -- Moon -- Courtship -- Zaraf's Star -- Goddess -- Pearl -- Interpenetrate -- Strangers -- Insect -- The Grim Garden -- Inside the Violet -- Blue Willow -- Speak Softly -- The Door -- No Snake -- A Small Sound in the Dark Woods -- Such Husks -- Now in November -- Song of the Sorry Side -- Awful Friend -- Nightmare -- Resolution -- Another Pregnant Woman Remembers Incest -- Tongue of Language -- Dusk -- Lesson from a Rock -- Reconciliation Bread -- Night Rain -- Fawns -- An Imaginary Companion -- The Ages' Years : A Dialogue -- Harvest Seam -- Sundown -- Shallow Sky -- Childless -- Wrist-Bracelet -- Wine-Glass Woman -- Lady Bug -- A Wreath of Time -- She That -- From The Encyclopedia of Scotland -- Invocation -- One, from "Rockwood" -- The Body of the Thing, from "Feeding the Admiral's Pussycat" -- The August Porch -- Spells -- A Dusk Song -- In Cities, Be Alert -- List -- Still Life -- Coy Mistress -- When Daphne Ran -- Lucid Waking -- Sapphics for Patience -- Another Reluctance -- A Way to See -- First Poem -- Caribou Kitchen -- "Creation Story," excerpted and adapted from Sheba in Eden -- From The Mermaid Tragedy -- From Marina Tsvetaeva : A Captive Spirit -- From Among the Goddesses : An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams -- From Wolf Song -- The Seafarer -- Louise Labé -- Sonnet 2 [Handsome Brown Eyes] -- Sonnet 5 [Bright Venus] -- Sonnet 13 [The Ivy and the Tree] -- Sonnet 14 [The Point of Death] -- Sonnet 16 [Impotence] -- Sonnet 18 [Kiss Me Again] -- Sonnet 19 [A Meeting with Diana] -- Sonnet 21 [Love Forces My Judgment] -- Sonnet 23 [The Tangle] -- Anna Akhmatova -- The White Bird -- Cleopatra -- Lot's Wife -- Andrée Chedid -- Thirst -- In Praise of Emptiness -- A Fragment of Sappho.…”
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Notre Dame review : the first ten years

Table of Contents: “…THE MUTE DEAF OF THE WORLDFROM THE MANAGER; JEPHTHAH AND HIS DAUGHTER; EIGHT HOURS IN THE NIXON ERA; ALFORD; FROM HISTOIRE DE FLORIDA; PHARAOH'S HOUSE; THE AMPHITHEATER; WEIL; THE ORDERS; WINDOWS OF PRAGUE; A LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON; DIRIGIBLE DAYS; AND ON THAT NOTE: JAZZ ELEGIES; A GUIDEBOOK TO THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE; THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM; THE EMPTY LOOM; SPARROW; INTO BLOSSOM; THE DEATH OF SENECA; SEMIOTICS; THE EVENING'S THEME; THE LOST HERODOTUS; ELEGIAC QUARREL: CONCLUSION; GIRL AT A BARBED WIRE FENCE; THE ELEGANT LADIES OF TALLINN; A MAN WHO WAS AFRAID OF LANGUAGE; CARL'S NECK.…”
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A place for humility : Whitman, Dickinson, and the natural world by Gerhardt, Christine

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Notre Dame review : the first ten years

Table of Contents: “…THE MUTE DEAF OF THE WORLDFROM THE MANAGER; JEPHTHAH AND HIS DAUGHTER; EIGHT HOURS IN THE NIXON ERA; ALFORD; FROM HISTOIRE DE FLORIDA; PHARAOH'S HOUSE; THE AMPHITHEATER; WEIL; THE ORDERS; WINDOWS OF PRAGUE; A LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON; DIRIGIBLE DAYS; AND ON THAT NOTE: JAZZ ELEGIES; A GUIDEBOOK TO THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE; THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM; THE EMPTY LOOM; SPARROW; INTO BLOSSOM; THE DEATH OF SENECA; SEMIOTICS; THE EVENING'S THEME; THE LOST HERODOTUS; ELEGIAC QUARREL: CONCLUSION; GIRL AT A BARBED WIRE FENCE; THE ELEGANT LADIES OF TALLINN; A MAN WHO WAS AFRAID OF LANGUAGE; CARL'S NECK.…”
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