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EmilyDickinson(1830—1886)
EmilyDickinsonwroteherwhimsical,dartingversewithsublimeindifferencetoanynotionofbeingademocraticorpopularpoet.Herwork,fardifferentfromthatofeitherWhitmanorLongfellow,illustratedthefactthatonecouldtakeasinglehouseholdandaninactivelife,andmakeenchantingpoetryoutofit.
MissDickinsonwasborninAmherst,Massachusetts,whereherfatherwasaprominentlawyerandpoliticianandwherehergrandfatherhadestablishedanacademyandcollege.Emily'sfamilywasverycloselyknitandsheandhersisterremainedathomeanddidnotmarry.EmilyseldomleftAmherst;sheattendedcollegeinanearbytownforoneyear,andlatermadeonetripasfarasWashingtonandtwoorthreetripstoBoston。After1862shebecameatotalrecluse,notleavingherhousenorseeingevenclosefriends.Herearlylettersanddescriptionsofherselfinheryouthrevealanattractivegirlwithalivelywit.Herlaterretirementfromtheworld,thoughperhapsaffectedbyanunhappyloveaffair,seemsmainlytohaveresultedfromherownpersonality,fromadesiretoseparateherselffromtheworld.Therangeofherpoetrysuggestsnotherlimitedexperiencesbutthepowerofhercreativityandimagination.
Whenshebeganwritingpoetry,Emilyhadrelativelylittleformaleducation.ShedidknowShakespeareandclassicalmythologyandwasespeciallyinterestedinwomenauthorssuchasElizabethBrowningandtheBront~sisters.ShewasalsoacquaintedwiththeworksofEmerson,ThoreauandHawthorne.Thoughshedidnotbelieveintheconventionalreligionofherfamily,shehadstudiedtheBible,andmanyofherpoemsresemblehymnsinform.
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CONTENTS
Part IV The Literature of Realism
Chapter 18 Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
I Sit and Look Out
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Chapter 19 Emily Dickinson
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
A Bird Came down the Walk
I Died for Beauty—But Was Scarce
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Chapter 20 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Chapter 21 Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chapter 22 O. Henry
The Cop and the Anthem
Chapter 23 Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
Chapter 24 Jack London
The Sea Wolf
Martin Eden
Chapter 25 Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
Part V Twentieth-Century Literature