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'Odd Secrets Of The Line': Emily Dickinson And The Uses Of Folk, Wendy Tronrud Jun 2020

'Odd Secrets Of The Line': Emily Dickinson And The Uses Of Folk, Wendy Tronrud

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Emily Dickinson and her poetry have famously been used as a defining example of American lyric poetry. The traditional scholarly perspective maintains that the lyric poem and its speaker exist in isolation and at a remove from social and political contexts. Recent scholarship on American poetry of the long nineteenth century, however, has taken a more historical and cultural turn, reconsidering how poetic and vernacular forms and genres circulated both privately and publicly. “Odd Secrets of the Line”: Emily Dickinson and the Uses of Folk joins this conversation by theorizing how Dickinson’s poetry, written during the 1859-1865 period, registers the …